Robert French

Hmm, Lets try that again shall we?

Well, as Craig pointed out in a comment on my last real post, we managed to reduce our electricity consumption by 15% during earth hour… Thats a positive thing.

I have spent the past few days reviewing the positive and negative effects in my life. I managed to remove myself from a situation recently that was negatively affecting myself more then I wanted to admit, and I’m actually quite proud that I removed myself from the situation rather then become sucked in and consumed by it (a past trend). Unfortunately, not everyone involved in this particular situation understands that, and rather then give me the benefit of the doubt, I got additional negativity… But such is life I guess.

At any rate, I’m going to try again to get the ball moving on the blogging …

Ok, Ok, … I know I haven’t been keeping up on my posting and for that I must truly suck. (such is life)

Put simply and honestly, I have been so subdued with life (and the multitude of ‘stuff’ (read crap) on my plate) that blogging has just totally taken a back seat to the day to day.
I am however trying to get back on top of this because it’s still a goal and I don;t just abandon my goals like that … Conversely I’m surprised that so many of my friends haven’t been ha-ranging me to post more… It could be that my blithering isn’t nearly as interesting to anyone except myself, but thats ok I still like to write. It wouldn’t hurt to be pestered though.

I managed to get a proposal finished up today for yet another project (I’m a nutcase. I know, but I really need the money). If you know of anyone looking for a good freelance developer or consultant drop them my email please … I’m flexible but not cheep, and I have some serious need for capitol gains right now.

At any rate, I count 28 missing posts So I’m going to go back through all the days I missed and see what I can come up with, I will be posting them as the date they should have been posted on, but will Identify them with OOT (Out Of Time) in the Title’s and Tags so they will be easily spotted. I think that works as a fair compromise for my mis-deed of missing so many posts.

With luck we all managed to save some electricity tonight, I’l see if I can find the results or a comparison from last years Earth Day and post them soon …

Sleep Sweet everyone

Well that didn’t work either, I need to cut myself less slack I think … dinner was yumminess tho

Still working on things, Steve pointed out today that when a project reaches that point where its just degrading to work on its time to get it off the plate… So i;m working late tonight trying to get a handle on the creeping feature-itus, makes me feel dirty to code, project I have on my plate. I’m hoping that a bit of triage time will make the actionable items and next steps clearer. Naturally though, because I want to get back to daily blogs, I figured before i inundate my brain with strange project requests I would type out a blog.

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Not quite 300 words today, but its a post, and with useful content too. Enjoy your dreams while I dig through a mess and try to make it better.

So I’m writing this from Jeff’s … I just finished helping him with his new laptop and he is cooking dinner … damn it smells good I was just informed that Jeff was looking for a blog update and hadn’t seen one so I figured that seeing as there is no time like the present, I would play a quick bit of catch up and write a short post.

You (the good people) won’t actually see it until now (Today @ 11:11), but its not that now, now .. its this now (yesterday from your perspective) … by the time you read this (now) I will have already digested the deliciousness that i can smell (now)… and if *I* re-read this it will undoubtedly remind me of the meal which I haven’t eaten yet. So is that anticipation of a future moment, or recall of a past moment, or still the same NOW moment that we all actually live in and the other types of moments only a mere figment of our imaginations?

Time is such a twisted concept sometimes (now).

Rebeka just pointed out that I always use the AM for my post … in an effort to try something new to get the blog posting going again, I think that I will switch to the PM … that will make this now (that your reading this), not the now that I had originally intended but a different now all together, the tonight now (which still won’t happen to me for another 3 or so hours) … I wonder how the difference in now will affect the illusion of time from a digestive standpoint will my re-collection of the future now while my belly is still full be that different from an illusionary point in ‘time’ when the yummy smelling food is long since passed? Thanks for the suggestion lady … we’ll see how it werks.

And Jeff … that better have been DAMN good because it feels like my stomach is going to eat itself if you don’t hurry up and finish cooking

Step one: steal underpants …
Step two:
Step three: PROFITS!

No, no, not that step three … although I DO like ‘profits’

Step 3: When you fail, know forgiveness for yourself.

Failure is a requirement in life I think. So long as you’re willing to look at why you failed and learn something from it it can be one of the most positive experiences in the process of attainment of a goal.

So fail fast, fail often. Then pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again….

I’ve failed at making a daily post on my blog here, w00t!!!
Why? well I think that in part it’s because my desire to blog daily wasn’t strong enough to actually do it daily and keep it up. The desire dwindled as I had more things that required my attention added to my plate.

Thing is *I DO* want to blog daily, but not having the time to write about my day scheduled into a daily routine made it really easy to skip out on, and even though I have this overdue item in my GTD tool staring at me constantly (Write daily blog), its not getting me to get it done … So clearly the GTD stuff is also failing for me. Even though I am getting a lot of things done faster and with better accuracy, having overdue ‘stuff’ that doesn’t provide a sense of urgency doesn’t make them get done any faster.

What I need to do now is the following … (this is how you salvage the failure and turn it into a victory)
1. Not dwell on the failure, it happened, accept it.
2. Decide if you want to try again (in my case the answer is YES)
3. Make a change in the way you were doing the failure. (you would be amazed at how many people never do this)
4. Take the first (or next) step and get moving.

So, because I don’t want to fail again at this. I will try setting aside some time every day (about an hour) to get the posts done. I like the idea of blogging about yesterday where I can provide hindsight, and I know from journal writing that only the important events of the day stick after a sleep… So I will aim for the AM to do this (like now). That should also give me that warm fuzzy feeling I get from knowing that I have accomplished something early in the day which usually motivates me to get more done.
See that? potential to take a failure and not only turn it around, but to make it a productive part of my day and help accomplish even more towards my goals.

Have an uber awesome and fantastic day everyone

Well I’m about a week behind in my posts … it happens so fast, I miss out on getting a post done and it moves over to overdue in my Omni-Focus and thats it … I don’t get caught back up… :-s or even think about it again until the end of the week when I do a mental review … Ok thats not totally true, I tell myself “you need to do X”, but then I get distracted and don’t get it done.

So I’m not sure how to overcome this ‘human factor’ in goals that everyone seems to suffer from, I’m just being brutally honest about it… I’m not doing what I need to get done, and thats frustrating me.

I’ll try to get caught back up over the weekend… I have a lot to say still…