This is why I abhor the college SRO requiring single-PI proposals a week in advance when I know it never takes more than an hour from me enabling SRO access to the proposal actually being submitted. It’s a compulsion and connected to my personality.
However, any “deadline” that I deem soft, unreasonable, or for other reasons missable or ignorable, I will do my best to miss and/or ignore. The thing is, by trying to do whatever pulls me most at any given moment, I actually get a ton done, and pretty fast, while I minimize feeling miserable. If I am really itching to work on fiction this morning, I will. Maybe I planned to work on a paper, and maybe I will, but maybe I won’t. I always have many things going on, which means that there is usually something I will feel excited to tackle, and, in the absence of hard deadlines, I indulge myself as much as I can. I am not objectively lazy, even though I sometimes feel like I am. I will get to them shortly, but first some general principles. This post was inspired by some writing-related questions I received from a reader.
If you’re a chaos goblin, too, if you do not strive to eradicate all disarray from your life and impose long-term order, but rather allow for (myriad) imperfections in yourself and others and in how you spend your time, and you focus on what suits you and yours best at any given moment, embracing the fact that you will have great days and terrible days and everything in between, and that it’s cruel (not to mention pointless) to force yourself to do stuff you absolutely don’t have to do, then maybe this blog post might just be of use to you. My approach to life and everything else is that of a chaos goblin. I am here for all those of us to are unwilling or unable to do some (or all) of the above. However, I feel like the only “how to” voices we hear online come from the people who advocate that success, money, and happiness stem from buying planners and planning-related stationery and/or boxes and/or shelves, hiring more people to take care of your kids (or relegating childcare to the possibly reluctant spouse), and basically making your time highly structured. My goal is not to throw shade at list lovers and über-organizers. I’ve written some (OK, maybe a lot) about the way I (dis)organize my time.
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