I amaze myself. I can accomplish tasks like no one's business, build a base of blog posts from now through eternity, form an army of lists, rid my house of even the most miniscule dust mite, and do just about anything I set my mind to...when there's something else I should be doing that I don't want to do.
For the love of Pete, is it POSSIBLE for me to avoid working on this presentation any longer? It's not that I hate the thought of doing it. I enjoy the subject matter and have had a blast giving a similar presentation multiple times. But every time I do it, I tweak it, add more, take away some and customize it a little for my audience. Like a good little marketing girl.
But the truth is I'm getting sick of it. Maybe not sick of it. I'm just tired of obsessing over whether or not it will be new and exciting for each audience. You know how it is when you become insanely familiar with something. You assume everyone else is too. My biggest fear is presenting something that everyone already knows, thus making myself a bore and wasting everyone's time.
There's also the fact that when I come home from work, I don't want to work anymore. I know I'll change my mind like tomorrow, when I'm obsessing over something different. But sometimes I really yearn to leave the job at work. I suppose I can do that. It's just a matter of mental self-control, right?
Husband just said "I'll bet if we got a padded toilet seat, you'd spend all of your time in the bathroom. You would have a nice, soft space for your computer activities and could stay in the bathroom all the time." Nice, Husband, nice.
How do you balance your work and play? Do you obsess over weird things?
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Conscientious people aspiring to some day be highly visible outstanding leaders will obsess and put in long overtime hours to get the job done to a high level of personal satisfaction. For highly visible, outstanding leaders it's second nature to give their work to conscientious people aspiring to some day be highly visible outstanding leaders who will obsess and put in long overtime hours to get the job done to a high level of personal satisfaction. That's how they stay highly visible and outstanding.
The only escape is to make your work be your play, at least most of the time.
Notary sojac
Smokey Stover,
former conscientious person etc.
Oh yeah, I can obsess over the weirdest things. Sometimes I'll spend TOO long finding just the right photo to go along with a blog post, when no one will even know the difference. That's just one small example.
I'm currently obsessing over my novel, chapter four to be exact. I have to insert a short transitional scene, which I could do easily, and which I would love doing once I actually got into it. But here I am, blogging and commenting. WHY?
If I had a deadline, I'd sure as hell get it done. So, can you give me a deadline? Please? I really need to finish this book.
My life got a lot better when I decided to leave my work at work. And I never had a disaster because of it. Nature didn't intend us to be working, or thinking about working all the time. That's opening the door to stress and, long term, health problems.
I understand the part about having to get ones self motivated to repeat a presentation without getting tired of it. That's where you have to think like an actor and remind yourself this is a fresh audience and they want to hear what you have to say and by God you're going to do a great job for them.
Break a leg!
Taking work home is not the best of things. I try to never do that, although as of lately I've had other things to do that have been feeling liek work too, so I'm kind over-working here... But the actual job should stay in the office, in my opinion. I'd rather stay at the workplace for longer and finish it than take it home! I believe it sets the bad tone for home environment... lol
But it's cool that you can still be productive when putting something off like that! I just procrastinate like crazy in such situatins and don't get anything important done at all :S
I guess everyone has their own way of working, but mine is definitely work stays at work.
I'm in the office at 0730hrs and knock off at 1630hrs. With a lunchbreak, that's 8.5hrs to get done what needs to be done and is plenty. The key is:
- Manage the time effectively.
- Divide the workload into chunks and prioritize it.
- Don't perform ANY unnecessary work.
- Refuse to allow time-wasters to waste your time.
The last two are sins too many people make. Of all the people I have ever worked with, the one's who complain most about their workload are the one's wasting time on things they shouldn't be doing.
Your hubby is a trip! I don't know why I put things off the way I do...they end up not being nearly as difficult as I'd thought. Good luck on completion and presentation.
i work from home, and sometimes i find myself getting anything and everything that needs to be done -done- except work. i really gotta work on that.
How about a change of scenery? We'll trade jobs for a week! I'll work on your presentation and you can work on my stuff here!
Yikes. There IS supposed to be balance, isn't there.
I haven't had time for play lately. No... allow me to ammend... I haven't MADE time for play lately. I have been working so much... and when I'm not working at the office, I'm at home working *industriously* (to use your word ;o)) at something so that I avoid smoking. I have scrubbed my bathroom to within an inch of its life and my car has probably never been cleaner since I've owned it.
I haven't taken any pictures, haven't seen most of my friends... urg. I guess this is a long way of saying I feel your pain and will be reading your comments looking for suggestions. :o)
I'm lucky that I now longer work outside the home, not that looking after our daughter isn't work but I'm so blessed that I don't have to work in an office all day and then spend what energy I have left trying to be her mom.
For me, the balance is easy, I blog when she is doing other activities but we are spending a lot of the day together now which I actually posted about a while back.
I bet your presentation is going to be fine. Funny, I bet men don't obsess like this about presentations. You are being too hard on yourself which is normal for us gals isn't it Lol!
oh, hardly ever do work at home. It is very very rare. Too much home stuff to do at home. Cristy says I can never sit down and just vegetate watching tv without bringing some project along or getting up to start some laundry or writing out a grocery list. Guilty.
Hope your presentation goes well!!
I just obsess about my blog. that's enough for me
hello,,
thx for commenting back at my blog
I play hard, work bad,,,
still hard to balance both of them,,,
T__T
hm,,,
and I obsessd for unordinary things,,
I love walking alone around the city,,
Only me,myself, and I,,,
then smile to stranger I meet,
yeah,,,such an autism,,,
I build my own world that time,,
XOXO
YULIA RAHMAWATI
A teacher delivers 5 presentations per day to five different groups of adolescent oddbods. Each presentation is a lesson involving both demonstration, explanation and participation. If you haven't done the first two bits right, the participation levels are low and patchy. This kind of pressure is wearing me down because I take it seriously and I worry about illiteracy and kids who can't think or follow basic instructions. That's what I obsess about: my workload. 5 presentations a day with minimal to no time to prepare.
Your audience trusts you and what you have to deliver. They want to be persuaded. Let the presentation itself go and simply present a positive, confident persona to your audience. You know your stuff. Stand back from it. All they need is total belief from you and they too will believe.
Yes, I can second guess myself to death!!!!
Work IS play, for me. Everything is a task to be accomplished. I don't know how to relax, unless it's walking, biking or playing video games. And I get little time for any of that. ;-)
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