Better Time Management FTW

So, one thing I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older is that I have actually gotten better with managing my time. I’m not 100% awesomely superb at it, but I’m honestly surprised that I’ve been able to just put away as many time sinks as I have the last few months, once the New Job started and my time started coming at more of a premium. Prior to re-employment, I had committed to two gaming groups, picked up another Play-by-E-mail game, played a lot of Lord of the Rings Online, and otherwise frittered the ol’ time away.

But since getting back to work, I’ve had to scale that back in order to stay productive with writing (and, in fact, I’ve gotten MORE productive), and it hasn’t come with nearly the cost I had feared it would. I mean, I’m pretty sad when I have to cancel on the in-person gaming folks, for instance, but I’ve found that when I think about it the priorities are pretty clear. It helps, of course, that my inner extrovert is sated by the day-to-day of working in a fairly standard workplace (complete with water cooler).

I’m thinking, though, that I wouldn’t have been as… flexible in these things in the past as I am now. Kind of a refreshing place to be in, after so many years of flying by the seat of my pants, and trying to keep everything in the air at once.

Mirrored from Bum Scoop.