A conundrum – or prioritizing competing agendas
Here’s what’s on my plate right now: Finish the Stinking Dissertation ™. Do edits for Trusting Destiny (whenever they arrive). Do crit for critique partner (time sensitive). Finish Twice as High (and rename). Do a new installment for Mercy. Do the blog entries. Do publicity for upcoming Dec 7 release This Fire in the Hearts Afire anthology. Clean house. Do laundry. Be Mommy. Be Wife. Dinners. Breakfasts. Lunches. Shopping.
You get the idea. So there are all these things to get done, and a very limited time in the day to accomplish them. How do you prioritize these things? For a long time, Mommy/wife was trumping everything, but here recently, I’ve been doing a big push to finish the dissertation. And it’s working. But now a lot of other stuff is on the plate and I’m finding that the dissertation is sliding. I can’t afford to let that happen, so I’m rearranging some other things to put the dissertation back at the top of the pile. It needs to get done.
My new approach is this: I’m giving my mornings to the dissertation – from the time I put Munchkin on the bus until lunch. Then, over lunch (like now), I’m doing blogging and maintenance things. And starting a new load of laundry. Then in the afternoon, before Munchkin gets home, it’s writing things. Right now, that means the crit partner stuff. After that is done, it means Twice as High, then it means new things. If, at some point, the edits for Trusting Destiny arrive, they get precedence in the writer spot. Then, when Munchkin gets home, i can do Mommy things (combined with house things and wife things) until it’s Munchkin bedtime. After that, its publicity, blogging, and writer things. And maybe some sleep. Possibly.
How about you? How do you prioritize things?
