Reflections - 2

It is five o'clock in the morning and I am up watching the sunrise and ready to complete a week of work in this one day. Pareto's Principle says that I should be able to do it with no problem. Perhaps I am using it a little out of context, but surely I can complete 80% of the work I have left to do with 20% of the time and effort. In examining the situation, I should have started my graduate assignments, script, and work projects as of six days ago. In two days, today and tomorrow, I will finish seven days of work. That means using 20% of my work week to complete all of my tasks. Voila!

In all of my exhaustion after work, I came home each day and crashed on the couch. When I awoke there was not a bone in my body that wanted to do anything else. I stretched out my tasks for the week and wrote down every assignment I was to do on a certain day. None of it was executed with precision and I even turned in my first grad assignment late. That hurt my heart, but what could I say? I was on the telephone gabbing and having social hour with my roomy. Too many distractions.

Now the sun is rising some days later and I refuse to spend a sunny Saturday slumped over the computer and headed in to work for hours. My mind refuses to let me sleep and I am up on a Saturday morning, just before sunrise, doing laundry, a journal entry, reading textbooks, choosing a research topic, listening to online lectures, brewing Chinese black tea and lesson planning for my kids. Cheers to the Pareto Principle and diligence.

Charlie