Comments on: I Need More Time! http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/ Helping you find your purpose and navigate your quarter-life crisis in style Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:22:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Leah http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/#comment-79 Leah Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:27:02 +0000 http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/#comment-79 I have a job with a lot of downtime. I'm overqualified, and therefore get all of my work done too quickly. There aren't a whole lot of challenges here, and a big part of my job is customer service, so if the phone isn't ringing, I'm not doing much. Therefore, I spend too much time surfing the internet. Good, bad, or indifferent, it's what I do. What I can do instead with some of that extra time is write my stockpile blog posts for when I go live. I read this post this morning, made that choice, and banged out three posts. Limiting goof off time is another good idea. I'll have to work on that one. I wish I could do the sleep thing. I am a night owl and would love to stay up later. But, I have a job that prefers that I come in on time, so I can't sleep later. And I love my sleep. I have a job with a lot of downtime. I’m overqualified, and therefore get all of my work done too quickly. There aren’t a whole lot of challenges here, and a big part of my job is customer service, so if the phone isn’t ringing, I’m not doing much. Therefore, I spend too much time surfing the internet. Good, bad, or indifferent, it’s what I do.

What I can do instead with some of that extra time is write my stockpile blog posts for when I go live. I read this post this morning, made that choice, and banged out three posts.

Limiting goof off time is another good idea. I’ll have to work on that one.

I wish I could do the sleep thing. I am a night owl and would love to stay up later. But, I have a job that prefers that I come in on time, so I can’t sleep later. And I love my sleep.

]]> By: JJ Loch http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/#comment-76 JJ Loch Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:50:37 +0000 http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/#comment-76 Getting up early strikes a chord with many successful authors. The muse is fresh from dreamland then, ready to deliver. :D And you don't have to spend the rest of the day saying, I wish I were writing. I have a rough draft almost completed and I can't believe the distractions that turn me in a different direction each day. I'm going to go for it and report to you when I have that rough draft completed. :D Report to me too when your writing is done. Hugs, JJ Hugs, JJ Getting up early strikes a chord with many successful authors. The muse is fresh from dreamland then, ready to deliver. :D And you don’t have to spend the rest of the day saying, I wish I were writing.

I have a rough draft almost completed and I can’t believe the distractions that turn me in a different direction each day. I’m going to go for it and report to you when I have that rough draft completed. :D Report to me too when your writing is done.

Hugs, JJ

Hugs, JJ

]]> By: Sister Sassy http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/#comment-75 Sister Sassy Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:40:05 +0000 http://semicharmedwife.com/2008/02/21/i-need-more-time/#comment-75 That could almost go toward being a parent too :) JimmyEW and I mostly cut out all TV and I can't imagine getting up earlier than 5:30-6:00am. Staying up later isn't an option but I do also do a good amount of cooking during the weekend (as you have seen) and try to make things that will be more than one meal. Good ideas. I have the same struggle. Somtimes I'll write blogs in email from work and then email them to myself...so I don't look like I'm slacking. Sometimes you just have to write no matter what you're doing. :) btw, back at you (email) That could almost go toward being a parent too :)

JimmyEW and I mostly cut out all TV and I can’t imagine getting up earlier than 5:30-6:00am. Staying up later isn’t an option but I do also do a good amount of cooking during the weekend (as you have seen) and try to make things that will be more than one meal.

Good ideas. I have the same struggle. Somtimes I’ll write blogs in email from work and then email them to myself…so I don’t look like I’m slacking. Sometimes you just have to write no matter what you’re doing.
:)
btw, back at you (email)

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