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Lessons (re)Learned...
Mar. 24th, 2008 11:11 amSniffing lavender oil scares the nauseaman away.
Of course it only works if I'm sniffing it continually, so here I sit at my desk, papers shuffled to the side and my body turned awkwardly so I can see them while keeping the oil right under my nose. I feel like Aunt Pittypat for heaven's sake. My smelling salts! Somebody fetch my smelling salts!
I've got nine projects on my at-work plate right now, all but two of them are Priority One. Hm. How's that gonna work?
I want a set of good, self-contained color-coded project portfolios, one for each project. I'll take recommendations if you've got 'em! The piles and banker's boxes of identical-looking manuscripts and manila folders on my desk only serve to confuse and overwhelm. They're organized in their own way, but so many notes are scattered and left unsynthesized that I have to go to two or three different folders to find what I need. An at-a-glance project portfolio will help me answer those impromptu questions quickly instead of with, "I don't know off-hand, let me look that up and get back to you."
I used to be so organized - In college, I started the habit of rewriting all of my class notes - complete with diagrams and color coding so study time was a breeze. I never wasted time on, "where is that?" or "what in hell was I abbreviating there?!?" The habit served me well in graduate school, too.
I am fully capable of doing this. So I'd better DO it, already! I've got six and a half months to blow away the Powers That Be and precipitate another promotion (or at least another spanktastic raise) before my end-of-year maternity absence. Time to kick it up a notch!
Of course it only works if I'm sniffing it continually, so here I sit at my desk, papers shuffled to the side and my body turned awkwardly so I can see them while keeping the oil right under my nose. I feel like Aunt Pittypat for heaven's sake. My smelling salts! Somebody fetch my smelling salts!
I've got nine projects on my at-work plate right now, all but two of them are Priority One. Hm. How's that gonna work?
I want a set of good, self-contained color-coded project portfolios, one for each project. I'll take recommendations if you've got 'em! The piles and banker's boxes of identical-looking manuscripts and manila folders on my desk only serve to confuse and overwhelm. They're organized in their own way, but so many notes are scattered and left unsynthesized that I have to go to two or three different folders to find what I need. An at-a-glance project portfolio will help me answer those impromptu questions quickly instead of with, "I don't know off-hand, let me look that up and get back to you."
I used to be so organized - In college, I started the habit of rewriting all of my class notes - complete with diagrams and color coding so study time was a breeze. I never wasted time on, "where is that?" or "what in hell was I abbreviating there?!?" The habit served me well in graduate school, too.
I am fully capable of doing this. So I'd better DO it, already! I've got six and a half months to blow away the Powers That Be and precipitate another promotion (or at least another spanktastic raise) before my end-of-year maternity absence. Time to kick it up a notch!
