Mother Nature is on some bullshit today.
There’s no good reason for it to be snowing this late into March. Not in New Mexico. It is rather tranquil, watching a bunch of snow-covered roofs zip by to the strings of See You On The Other Side.
This morning I’m trying WriteMonkey, which they affectionately call ‘Zenware.’ There’s plenty to play with from a customization standpoint. But somehow these distraction-free workspaces seem to always use way more RAM than they have any reason to. It’s using >100MB of RAM just for gray text on a black background, a word count, and the clock. It has a little button that randomly picks the color scheme. It’s kind of fun, until you get yellow on hot pink and your eyeballs fall out.
I’m a little pensive this morning. I’m concerned about how shorthanded things will be today. I wonder if I gave someone good advice yesterday, I was certainly trying to. My mind is generally sort of scattered, and that’s usually a good indication that I need to do a weekly review outside of my normal schedule of Fridays at 2:30. Come to think of it, it was a half-day on Friday so I missed it last week. I won’t want to feel this scattered all the way to Friday, so it’s something to be done rather early today.
I need to do better with GTD in general, I’ve fallen out of that capturing habit. It’s not for a lack of ability or resources, just lack of effort. It needs a little refocusing every now and then. Once you stop habitually capturing everything, it stops being effective as a tool to enable a clear mind, a mind like water.
The theme lately in writing has been accountability, and there’s not a significant difference between holding myself accountable at work versus at home. Hell, without work, home is probably an alley somewhere. It needs equal respect and attention when it comes to self-improvement.
It’s funny, I’ve mentioned before on a particularly long-winded Facebook post that a self-help book like GTD was something that teenage me thought I’d never use, never need. Now it’s the realization that I can listen to someone that’s got their shit together more than I do and it’s not some big admission of inferiority.
And a sincere thanks to OneNote here, not only for being my GTD capturing tool but for Office Lens OCR, which saved this blog post when my Surface Pro 3 hard-locked on the train for no good reason. Appreciate that.
