Overwhelmed - Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Realized that I haven’t been blogging much about myself for awhile now. The main culprit would be microblog (twitter). Ever since I started microblogging, I have been putting my thoughts on things at the moment directly to my Twitter and would not have kept it to blog when I have the time.
Another reason for my lack of blogging would also due to my work. Yes, I am busy, so are a lot of us. But more than busy, I am getting rather overwhelmed with my work and to-be-made decisions. If you have been emailing me about freelance work, you would know that I have stopped accepting freelance projects for a few months now at least for the time being as I am currently involved in a few long-term projects and also managing my startups.
Everyday, there are more tasks that I insert, or pull from yesterday’s, onto my to-do list than I can complete them. There are just too much work for me to handle everyday, and that’s also after I have totally taken out hobby (poker) from my routine. I have stopped playing poker for more than a month now, online or otherwise.
Besides tasks and work, recently I have also been thinking a lot about decisions that I have to make for my startups. Should I take on this expansion path, should the business be taking on this marketing plan, should I consider taking in investments, should I spend my limited coding time to implement this. There are simply too many decisions to be made recently and with my easily-worried attitude, I get overwhelmed sometimes trying to organize my thoughts.
Recently, more often than not, I find myself starting on a task, working on it, only to be switched over to another task about 3 minutes into the earlier one. The same would happen on the 2nd task as well, and so on.
Maybe I am involved in too many things now, maybe I am not. I know a lot of people are involved in more things than I am and yet they can still remain pretty organized.
Anyway, I will be taking a month of non-pay leave from one of my jobs to catch up on things, especially for those on my businesses. Most importantly, in that one month, with one-less commitment, I hope I am also able to think more clearly and make good crucial decisions and plans.
I have been really lucky to have really understanding bosses. They have not only been extremely understanding of my situation and my involvement in my startups, they have also been lending helping hands as much as they could to aid me. I would also like to thank them for being so nice and understanding.
November 30th, 2007 / 9 Comments / Trackback