So many things are happening right now that I am wondering whether to take them all as a challenge and accomplish them or give up on a few of them. The two main things that are competing for my time are office work and the work required for putting up a music show in April. It's great in one sense that I am busy, but these things leave me with so little free time, in particular so little free time for 'myself'. I can clearly see why some people backed out from organizing the music show. It is undeniably a big pain - asking everyone to assemble in the auditorium at a specific time, assembling the drums, converging on song choices, instructing the instrumentalists, wrapping up the reherasals and then following up on the 'homework assignments', creating midi files, oh my!
I also wanted to travel here and there this year, but with this kind of a schedule in my hands, I am not sure if I'll get the time to even think about it, literally. We have president's day coming up and I have simply not thought about what to do then, assuming that I can indeed take the day off and so something. The flight deals might get expensive if I wait any further. Unbelievably, everything comes and piles up in the weekend, at which point of time, it is too tempting to succumb to one's whims and fantasies and ultimately end up wasting time without accomplishing much. Thinking about it, it takes quite a LOT to be in control and drive your life the way you want it to go. Yeah, you don't have that much control and all that, but seriously, if you want to get anything done at all, discipline and ruthlessness have to enter the picture somewhere. When I saw 'ruthlessness', I only mean ruthlessly denying time for something that also seems more important, but not nearly as exciting.
This is where I think one should take some time and plan things according to what Stephen Covey says. THE URGENT BUT NOT IMPORTANT things are something that we should not worry about. Let me think what these are for this weekend:
I also wanted to travel here and there this year, but with this kind of a schedule in my hands, I am not sure if I'll get the time to even think about it, literally. We have president's day coming up and I have simply not thought about what to do then, assuming that I can indeed take the day off and so something. The flight deals might get expensive if I wait any further. Unbelievably, everything comes and piles up in the weekend, at which point of time, it is too tempting to succumb to one's whims and fantasies and ultimately end up wasting time without accomplishing much. Thinking about it, it takes quite a LOT to be in control and drive your life the way you want it to go. Yeah, you don't have that much control and all that, but seriously, if you want to get anything done at all, discipline and ruthlessness have to enter the picture somewhere. When I saw 'ruthlessness', I only mean ruthlessly denying time for something that also seems more important, but not nearly as exciting.
This is where I think one should take some time and plan things according to what Stephen Covey says. THE URGENT BUT NOT IMPORTANT things are something that we should not worry about. Let me think what these are for this weekend:
- Attending the western classical concert tomorrow at 8pm
- Meeting with my friend
- May be calling another friend for dinner, who was promised a dinner two weeks back!
- Taking care of finances, reimbursements, etc
- Planning a vacation
- Shopping
URGENT AND IMPORTANT THINGS:
- Getting some office work done
- Prepare for the music rehearsals
- Creating midi files for the instrumentalists
- Finding a Bengali singer
- Call my friend and wish him for becoming a father :)
NOT URGENT AND IMPORTANT THINGS:
- Think and plan for life :)
- Publish papers and write patents
- Go to the gym
- Call family
- Meet friends and ex colleagues for lunch
- Pay registration fees and insurance for car, motorcycle
NOT URGENT AND NOT IMPORTANT THINGS:
- I somehow don't concentrate on these - it is hard to come up with something to write under this column.
Anyways, that's all I am going to write now. A few people will be leaving my previous company. They are all trying to recap what all happened in the last five years :) Looks like they just grew older, became cynical and....a few other things they weren't supposed to become :)
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