Week 8: Reality Check

I got nothing done in the craft room this week.  Technically Lent is over along with it my Lenten resolution to accomplish something every week, but honestly I made the resolution with the intention of it sticking past Lent.  It is not sticking.

I thought of making this the last post to this blog (public accountability obviously isn't working) but two things happened to make me change my mind.  One I realized that stopping the blog won't make me any more likely to finish the project.  Two I attended an in-service for work about managing time.

The presenter had a lot of tips and tricks to organize ones time in the work place and in ones personal life.  Three of these tricks were to plan the week in advance, create blocks of time for tasks that need to be completed (not just events), and to be specific in those tasks.

When I got home I created a simple spreadsheet with the days of the week across the top and the hours in the day across the side and then started filling it in.  The cells during my work hours were colored black.  When I can, I like to walk to work so I designated the hour before and after work for that.  Then dinner was marked off and a rather optimistic command to "go to bed" around 11:00 pm.  Reoccurring commitments like church and yoga made it onto the spreadsheet next, followed by plans I had made with friends.  The week filled up surprisingly fast.  The one day that didn't fill up quickly got designated for completing chores (I tend to cook one day a week and then eat left overs the rest, and my laundry has to be done sometime).  The craft room did not make it on the spreadsheet for next week.

There will be no progress to report for week 9.  This is not falling off the band wagon.  I'm not even going to try and catch it.  That does not mean I am abandoning project craft room.  In fact extending my spread sheet ahead another week shows that a week from Saturday I will have a free day that I have already marked off a chunk of to devote to my craft room.  I am also taking into account the third tip and devoting the day to cleaning up the piles of junk lying on the floor in the craft room (remnants from week 3).

What will be reported next week is a plan of action!  I am going to think up some specific tasks to complete when time is available in the coming weeks.  Instead of "work on craft room" my spread sheet will say....well next week I'll have an answer for that.