Rerailing is the opposite of derailing and it’s what I need to do to get my 11for11 project back on track. I’m not sure how I got derailed, exactly but I think I just convinced myself I was done with the task — in fact, I made it just over half way to my goal to get 100 listings in my Zibbet store. Part of my brain knew I wasn’t done so couldn’t move on to the next task. The other part just didn’t wanna do it any more (adding listings is incredibly tedious) because there was other stuff to do — shiny, distracting things like planning for Kiddo’s party and for the garden and for the other stuff.
Then there was a setback when I discovered that our Smashwords book is being held back from the premium stores because of formatting — even after I spent hour upon hour following every instruction to the letter. Essentially, this means I have to go back and re-finish the first task. Ack. There’s also the nagging feeling that I am not doing what I want to do — writing, blogging, skipping ahead to other things on the list, et cetera!
But, the deal was, pick a thing and do it until it’s done. So how to rerail this project?
Initially, I was keeping a timesheet. I kept it open under my browser so it was always prominent but all it took was one Windows update to wipe it off and put it out of my mind. I was also trying to do an hour a night but it didn’t take long for that arbitrary number to seem arbitrary enough to dwindle until it disappeared altogether. So… now what? Calendar reminders? Some sort of time-management tracker? A pet possum to poke at me when I get lazy? Suggestions welcome….
Tonight, however, I’m going to bed. 😛