Snowball Time

It’s snowball time- in more ways than one.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been ridiculously busy. After seriously considering my schedule, and piles of unfinished projects, I’ve decided to to a “Project Purge.” And like Dave Ramsey teaches when trying to crush overwhelming obstacles, I’m going to use the “snowball method” to make it happen.

This means I’m going to look at my entire list of projects, and do two things:

  1. Determine if I really need to do it at all
  2. Prioritize the smallest projects first, to knock them out

This will let me systematically minimize what I’m doing. There are some projects that will either take a very long time (home remodeling) or last indefinitely (restoring the Rambler). But other things I can “finish” and take them off my plate.

I’ve also decided to quit caffeine again. No, I’m not going to enjoy it. But my face started breaking out again, and I’m not getting enough sleep. So “rest” will be one of those projects I’m working on.

Bike riding will have to be scaled back some, as will working on music equipment, building/collecting things, and so on. I need to get rid of piles of things I’m never going to finish. Do I really need a pile of guitar effect pedals, when I can do everything I need with just one? Do I need to keep R/C car parts “just in case” I get around to using them? Probably not.

I still have buckets of computer parts and networking stuff, which I’ll never use again… those need to go to a good home. 15-year-old computer CD’s? Gone. Stuff I bought to do with my kids, who never showed interest? Don’t need it.

The next few months are going to be hard, because those are all things I want to have time to do. But ultimately, I don’t need to do them all, and holding on to that “stuff” associated with them is clutter in the house, and in my mind.