It's the beginning of the long, Memorial Day weekend.
I'll be at the office the entire time. My friend/colleague has gone on
vacation leaving me to cover. That's fine. Plenty of quiet, potential work hours.
To help get into the right mood I put down hourly goals onto a post-it note. Here's what I have for today, Friday:
7p - wash face
8p - photocopy articles
9p - write in blog(s)
10p - take diet pills
So far, so good! It's 9p and i'm on track to successfully completing my tasks. Having said that I've not done any academic reading, thinking or writing today. I'd like to blame the noise and rattle of the office cleaning crew. But, no. My own laziness. A headache's been quietly storming the gates in the last few hours. That could be keeping me from serious mental anything.
Tomorrow my goals are a lot less (or more?) lofty. Three hours on each project for a total of six academic-hours in the larger 10-hr industrial work day here at JCI. In three hours I know how much I can accomplish. What I need is some way to psych myself for the work ahead. Some cheerleader for positive attitude. Now that I've written down my goal in a public, not-easy-to-ignore space it's not an option to later give excuses. C'mon Don! You're not dumb.
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