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| From Queer Joe's Knitting Blog |
One of my favorite crochet friends recent spoke of being overwhelmed with everything she wanted to accomplish, and feeling paralyzed by the sheer mountain of projects she had planned. Following is what I wrote to her:
I know what it's like to be overwhelmed like you describe. I used to be a project manager, and learned a few tips:
- Make a list of open projects.
- Prioritize them in terms of urgency of completion or perceived due date (of the project, not any babies involved!).
- Starting with the most urgent projects, break them down into components or stages and create manageable and attainable goals for each day and/or week. It's OK if some of the goals have to move to the next day/week, but if it happens often you might be making your goals too ambitious. As you finish projects, add more projects from the current project list to the goals within your grasp.
- (This is the hardest part.) Try to resist starting new projects while doing this. Only use new projects as a reward for achieving a goal or a set of goals. But any new project goes into the same project pipeline.
I'm hardly a paragon of virtue or structure, and I can't say I follow these guidelines perfectly. But I hope the suggestions might be of some help.
And remember, it's progress, not perfection!
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