Today I will be continuing to work through the task list that I wrote up yesterday. I didn’t finish everything, but I did finish quite a few of them and each time I looked over at the list, it reminded me of all the different tasks I wanted to complete, and so that helped battle forgetting them over and over. Even though some tasks are also on my ClickUp, sometimes it’s hard to remember they’re there if there isn’t a physical copy for me to look at and hold in my hands. I think that’s something I definitely struggle with these days, especially now that I work from home. I’m used to being hands-on and learning that way, and so trying to do everything digitally doesn’t work for me. Though most of my work is digital, all the planning and note-taking happens in monthly files and reports that I handwrite so that I can help myself keep tabs on everything. Even digital sticky notes aren’t as helpful as real sticky notes. And that’s when it becomes a bit of a pain. The issue of wasting paper is what I need to balance when I need my physical copies. I don’t print to edit anymore because it’s just so much paper being wasted as I do multiple edits, and it’s faster to edit online, but it definitely improved my focus when I did it all by hand. Now that I’ve done a lot of editing on the computer, I’m a lot better at it and don’t feel the need to print anything, but there are definitely times when my eyes struggle with having been looking at the lines on the computer for hours. And so just having brief reports and planners on paper really help compensate for how my brain gets lost when navigating the many tabs and places on my computer. This is one of those moments when I wonder if technology has outgrown me, and I wonder if I’m the new generation of “tech-illiterate”. But my partner is still adept at most things thrown his way, and so it’s probably just me that can’t keep up, haha.

Today, I’m feeling particularly motivated. I spent a lot of time yesterday just resting and tackling that little big list of tasks, as well as fulfilling some other commitments. I have already added more tasks to that sheet from yesterday, and I’m hoping to keep up that energy. Motivation is like wind in the mast of a kalia; ride it for as long as you can.