My Biggest Conundrum: How to Divvy Up My Time

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“Tiger King”), do puzzles, zoom or face time with friends, walk the dogs, avoid the news, and for the truly enterprising, clean a corner of the house.</p><p id="cafa">As with most of my writing, I write my piece to find my peace. Even though there are many calls on my time as I pen this on a seemingly unscripted day, I am writing with the hope of getting a glimpse of what I can do better.</p><p id="bfd0">During the coronavirus period, my days look like this:</p><figure id="74d4"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*EtqHlurArfV9nRoyCQWZRg.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="e277">Just in doing this simple pie chart, I have identified my problem: There are too many wedges to easily manage even though I wouldn’t give up a single one.</p><p id="471e">So while I won’t reduce the number of wedges, I can adjust the balance a bit. I need less time on “home stuff” — messy corners haven’t bothered me for years, so why now? I need more time on fitness (don’t they say, “sound body, sound mind”), and above all, I need to change my attitude.</p><p id="0fd0">I will coin my new attitude with one simple word: Acceptance.</p><p id="b4b6">Acceptance means I will judge less. No other descriptors are needed. Simply judge less.</p><p id="1e13">Write my piece, find my peace. Works every time.</p></article></body>

My Biggest Conundrum: How to Divvy Up My Time

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While there are many challenges in today’s Covid-19 climate, my biggest one is not how to:

Effectively socially isolate

Keep the fridge stocked

Keep the dogs happy

Keep the work flowing

Stay connected to friends and family

Be a positive ambassador of goodwill to the larger world

Continue developing content for two passion projects

Above all stay sane

The biggest challenge I have is how to divvy up my time in our long and unchartered days. There are so many buckets that matter to me. Just within Medium, I aim to publish one well-written piece per week and respond to five to seven authors with feedback, praise, and pushback where I think it might be helpful.

Then there is my consulting business which pays the bills and allows me to write on platforms like Medium. My clients have already cut back, and no superior sales skills will open the gates for new project work in the near future. I value the all-important sales muscle, but this is a time to lie low.

So I am turning my attention to working on my business survival strategy so that I make past the twenty-two-year mark and into the post-coronavirus era.

My big challenge is then is how to divvy up my time. I need to do more than pay lip service to my two loyal dogs (Nemo who is 13 and Teddy who is 2) and be that rock of humor and good food to my family.

Teddy and Nemo chillin’

Most of us are operating with the same playbook: enjoy some well-cooked meals, binge-watch shows that I label “covid-19 picks” (aka, “Tiger King”), do puzzles, zoom or face time with friends, walk the dogs, avoid the news, and for the truly enterprising, clean a corner of the house.

As with most of my writing, I write my piece to find my peace. Even though there are many calls on my time as I pen this on a seemingly unscripted day, I am writing with the hope of getting a glimpse of what I can do better.

During the coronavirus period, my days look like this:

Just in doing this simple pie chart, I have identified my problem: There are too many wedges to easily manage even though I wouldn’t give up a single one.

So while I won’t reduce the number of wedges, I can adjust the balance a bit. I need less time on “home stuff” — messy corners haven’t bothered me for years, so why now? I need more time on fitness (don’t they say, “sound body, sound mind”), and above all, I need to change my attitude.

I will coin my new attitude with one simple word: Acceptance.

Acceptance means I will judge less. No other descriptors are needed. Simply judge less.

Write my piece, find my peace. Works every time.