Last week wasn’t the most productive week, unfortunately. I took longer to recover from the doll show than I had hoped, even though if I were being honest with myself, I did expect it… I had just hoped (and made plans for) otherwise.
I think I have a good plan moving forward, but I’ll only get to play with it a little this week. I have a busy nine days or so ahead of me: riding twice this week, followed by about five days of babysitting and pet care over the weekend and next week. I might not have accepted the overnight babysitting Friday and Saturday nights if I’d remembered I was working Monday and Tuesday for another family, too — but then again, I might have. It’ll be a lot of good money.
Here’s a quick rundown of the past week:
Writing
I had skipped working on my novel the day of the show and the last couple of days leading up to it, and I never got back to it this week. As a result I have a 10-days streak of NOT writing, which I broke by working on my novel already today.
I did get the one social media post up last week, but that was it. One goal met, though.
I did work on my politics newsletter every day last week.
Decluttering and Organization
After the show I left much of the stuff I’d brought home out so that I could go through it, reorganize, and work on my inventory. I did work on that last week, and I’ve gotten maybe half of the show stuff put away. I still have some reorganizing to do — I want to make sure certain things are more accessible for sales throughout the year (and not just for shows) — but it’s getting there.
Dolls
I worked on one doll project last week, a client doll I needed to finish up. This week I need to finish the projects that didn’t get done in time for the show. Once those are done, I’ll start on the rest of the project dolls. One of the post-show organization goals is to get project dolls better organized to work on them going forward, so that should help as well.
Taxes
There was no time to get our return ready before the deadline, so I filed an extension. I plan to get back to work on it at least a little every day this week.
Lessons Learned
One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is how to play to my strengths a little better. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that I’ve come to suspect I have ADHD. The suspicion has been brewing for years, and the more I learn and read and watch, the more sense it makes. I’ve been seeing a lot of various apps, plans, and services geared toward those with ADHD, most of them claiming to help you “overcome” it. But one of the things I’ve found most compelling is the suggestion that it can actually be a superpower if you learn to use it to your advantage.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to do this, and considering making some changes to my schedule in order to make the most of what I know about my strengths and weaknesses. Discussing it here would make for a very long post, though, so I’ll write a separate post about this in the next day or two. For now, suffice it to say that I have some things I want to try this week, but I’m not expecting to get a ton done because of how busy I’ll be (riding and babysitting, mainly).
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