Review: Week ending 4/24/05
The “come hell or high water” list for the week ending 4/24/05… revisited:
- Trombone – I played trombone a couple of days this week, but really got sidetracked by an important presentation that I had on Friday morning. Rather than get down about it, I need to look closer at the “why” I should have played trombone two minutes a day last week, because I don’t think it was strong enough in my mind. It was more out of obligation than out of a pressing need, because when another more pressing need came up, I let the trombone playing slide. I’m not certain how to deal with this. I want to continue to play trombone. I do not want to let this talent/skill atrophy, but I do not know how to effectively motivate myself to maintain even a rudimentary practice routine especially without pressing playing opportunities (read: no gigs at the moment…). Is the answer to go out there and trade time for money (find gigs?).
- Push-ups/Pilates – I was successful in meeting my physical goals this week, though I did have resistance at times to doing my pilates work out. I think that I need more variety… I do have another pilates DVD, but it takes 15 minutes, instead of the 12 minutes of the one I currently use. It’s interesting how resistant we can be to change, even when we know intellectually that there is a benefit to be had.
- Presentation – This was a very successful part of my week. The presentation went very well on Friday, and I’ll be following up with more work on this to try to get this project finalized and bring in some cash flow. One point that could have been better was the fact that I needed to devote all of Thursday & late into Thursday night to finally complete this. I need to find a more balanced way to treat projects so that I don’t find myself in the 11th hour under the gun. I am happy that it wasn’t a desperate 11th hour push for this one… I’d done alot of work before Thursday so alot of what I was doing was just putting ideas that had been developed into presentational form. I can be more balanced though…I’ll find a way! : )
- Minuet Steps – I video’d the steps, but still haven’t posted them online. Why? Perfectionism at work here, I think. I could have just posted the video as is, but the perfectionist in me wanted to sync up a better audio track with his steps. Result: The steps still aren’t available online, thus benefitting no one.
- Treaty of Dover book – I did not re-read the Treaty of Dover chapter in my book.
- Desktops/Downloads to be sorted folder – I didn’t completely finish this task, but made a hell of a dent in it. I took what was 15-20 folders of “Desktops to be sorted” crap and whittled it down to one to be completed. We’re talking maybe five gig’s of stuff deleted here. Along the way I created 20 or so labeled folders which better define the things I didn’t throw out. It’ll be alot easier to now take this week and go thru those folders and identify things that I need in my day to day work, and things that can be archived. Also whittled away alot of the “Downloads to be sorted” folder as well. I expect to be able to knock out a good part of the rest of this material this week.
So, rather than judge as good or bad the results of this past week I’ll be content to document them, and move on to creating new goals for this week.