I can feel my obsessive nature gradually taking over my work ethics. This is a good thing. Needs to be balanced, though. At the moment, I'm obsessed with the music-making. I spent hours today tinkering with a beat and a significant amount of my remaining time emailing people about the production of the debut EP.
The time was hardly wasted. The beat - a beautiful, four-bar piece of architecture built from taikos, shakers, handclaps, Amen breaks and big breathy kick drums - is close to the purest distillation for the kind of sound I'm going for in my music I've made as yet. I tried to upload it but soundcloud's screwing around. Once it's up, you will hear it, trust me. It's not quite complete - still need to tweak it - but the pattern is fantastic. Outside of the beat, I set myself a goal to release my debut EP by February's end and I made headway towards that goal.
These advances, however, came at the expense of some other work. While I didn't neglect the domestic stuff or the exercise stuff - I even went for a brief swim - I didn't make much progress on the employment front. My reason was that I needed to sort out my references but I question whether that was a legitimate concern. I'm never quite sure about the difference between sensible pauses/rests and lazing about or copping out.
In any case, I'll just have to make amends for it tomorrow.
Have you thought about choosing just one or two things from your list to do each day, that way you get your "obsession time" and you still get everything done across the week. You could even finish it with a "free day" as such where there are no rules or demands upon yourself and then you can see what you do on your free day and see where your priorities lay subconsciously.
ReplyDeletePlus I personally believe lists are great. I can not survive a day without a list; it really helps to keep on track and adds a sense of achievement when you physically scribble something out.