Look here, I’ll level with you. I have several deep, meaningful posts that I’ve been working on, and which I intend to keep working on, but none of these managed to be finished by the time I needed to make a decision on what to post this week.
This week has been one of those weeks when I’ve been so busy, having so many mental browser tabs open at the same time, that I haven’t had an opportune moment to sit and refine my thoughts to a degree whereupon I feel comfortable posting them. It isn’t so much that I haven’t had breaks in my physical schedule as it is that my mind has been constantly occupied, mostly by stress, and the magnitude and uncertainty surrounding the events of this week have been enough to give me lengthy pause before clearing my mind in order to make time.
Although I hesitate to make promises, I do expect that after the first few days of next week, I will have a brief interlude before my life begins to pick up in tempo once again in anticipation of my summer travels. My hope is to spend the coming week taking stock and reorganizing so that I won’t be caught off guard with my travel days getting the better of me. Of course, I say this every time I am about to embark. Perhaps one of these times it will be true.
Even so, having a few solid days to knock items off my checklists will be, if not necessarily productive to the point of meeting goals, then at least, cathartic. By this time next week many of the things on my agenda will either be done, or so far past the point when they ought to have been that they are no longer priorities (which is done, in a sense).
This strategy, if it can be called that, won’t do much to solve the lingering questions that keep me up at night, but it will deal with the more pressing crises that have paralyzed me of late more by their multiplicity than by their merits alone. This isn’t a great plan. But as Patton was fond of saying, a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week. I disagree with Patton on a lot of things, but I think he was on point here.
