{"id":1557,"date":"2010-09-07T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:50:25","slug":"the-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"The Work Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

When my kids go back to school for the fall (although with this heat it hardly qualifies for that word!\u00a0 I love L.A.)\u00a0 and also when they get out for Christmas and the summer, I tend to re-evaluate my time table and make schedule changes.\u00a0 Because our lives are constantly changing.\u00a0 Something I learned being a parent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently I’ve been noticing a pattern in my week.\u00a0 On Monday I tend to try and wrap my head around the week before me, so I lean to doing just the necessities and trying to sort through everything.\u00a0 But the day runs pretty sluggishly.\u00a0 Tuesday I try to accomplish all the work I set up to do at the weekly business meeting on Sunday.\u00a0 Wednesday I only work half the day, from home and end up doing some nice quiet data entry.\u00a0\u00a0 Thursday I’m playing catch up.\u00a0 But Friday, I get a surge of energy and accomplish a lot. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday is easy to explain.\u00a0 I’ve run out of time to get my work done, I look forward to building a stack to show the boss on Sunday… and Friday is a date night for me so I’m naturally in a very good mood. \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n

But my life is about to change, big time.\u00a0 The oldest, who I’ve been homeschooling, will go back to public middle school.\u00a0 The divorce is progressing.\u00a0 The soon-to-be ex will be moving out sometime in September.\u00a0 (He can’t\/won’t seem to give me a definite date on that.)\u00a0 When I have the kids will change.\u00a0 My finances will change.\u00a0 My time…\u00a0 Oh, my available time… will so change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today was Tuesday and I was moving slow.\u00a0 But fate dumped a bunch of irritating, press-my-crazy-button, little events that ended up giving me a surge of angry adrenaline.\u00a0 Suddenly ALL those people who hadn’t answered my recent emails, got a polite but firm reminder or phone call.\u00a0 I whipped through my To Be Emailed stack and then attacked the ones sitting in my in-box waiting for me to follow up on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got a lot of shit done. <\/strong><\/p>\n

So when I left the office I announced Tuesday would forever be Handle ALL the Email Day.\u00a0 Monday would be Sort Day, but I’ll have to sort ALL the paperwork and follow up on it.\u00a0 Wednesday would be Data Entry Day, and I’d really catch up.\u00a0 Thursday’s going to have to be a Filing and Misc. Day because Friday isn’t going to change much at all.
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And when I got home Tuesday, I kept up the work and getting stuff accomplished.\u00a0 I was so proud. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, I did need a Coke Zero and Vodka to do it!
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