I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there. Trusting in God is key. We can worry, plan, and prepare all we want. But at some point we just have to trust that He’ll make it work.

Thanks for your thoughts!

I spend a whole LOT of time searching blawgs looking for sample pleadings, sample answers, sample templates, etc. Finally, I just had to ask God to give me peace. I only have to answer these documents once in my life, and when I’m finished writing my brief, answering interrogatories and requests for doc; then I get my life back.

So, I prioritize. My relationship with God comes first. Everything else falls into place and He gets me through everything.

I think I still spend too much time reading blawgs though, because sooner or later the planning has to stop and you actually have to do the task you’ve been planning (and procrastinating)

Then I’ve started my day off good too!

I bow in your presence. That’s amazing! You’ve got some incredible discipline to figure out that plan and execute it. It sounds like you’ve got some good motivation too – a great family.

There’s nothing wrong with being a nerd. I’m one too!!

Have you tried disabling your email notifications? I use Gmail, and I don’t have any notifier. But I check the page manually quite often. It’s a habit I’m working on breaking.

Recently I have tried stripping back what I read. I have cleared out some of the bulk ones like digg and del.icio.us, which happily means I don’t switch on the computer and see over 1000 feeds waiting to be read. I knew they had to go when I had got to the point where I was clicking the “mark all as read” button instantly. I’ll do a bit more spring cleaning soon. (Yeah, like I’ll start the diet tomorrow.)

I look at my stats once a month, but, you know, I might even stop doing that.

Here’s my thing: My work frequently finishes quite early in the afternoon. It is lovely to get home and be able to spend extra time with our daughter, but I would also find that I would fritter away time in the afternoon and evening not getting any articles written for the blog, or just working on one piece, quietly panicking that I didn’t know what to write for the next day.

Then I read a great article which recommended planning a reasonable blogging schedule and sticking to it – say, five posts a week. Then, try to have a “buffer” of at least that many posts. Also, plan on having a day just for writing posts and working on the buffer.

That gave me the idea.

On the days I finish early, instead of going home, I go to the library. I have myself a notebook, and I just write. I am working on bringing up my buffer to 10 articles because, at the moment, I’m still on this week, and I want to be on next week. So, I write for two or three hours and it is massively productive. Sometimes I’m able to log on with the library computer and post an article that way!

Then, I still get home at a reasonable hour and I can spend quality/quantity time with the family, and I’m not even bothered about turning on the computer.

Time-leak well and truly plugged!

I’ve started weaning myself off of checking email every time I get the “you have one unread message” notification.

Oh and I can’t get enough of lifehacks and GTD.

I’m such a nerd.