Are you good at managing your time? I'm not. After I returned from Italy, I'd been busy working on another art show in Kyoto. The deadline is the 21st, so I definitely had to finish my piece by then.
I designed the new piece for the art show in Kyoto while I was still in Italy and planned on starting on it immediately after I got back. However, as life often goes, things didn't work out as planned. I had a lot of errands to run such as taking care of my grandson, helping my parents, dog-sitting my neighbor's dog, hanging out with my friends, attending painting lessons and more. Then, gradually I started falling behind of schedule.
To be honest, I've never been ahead of schedule. I always want to be, but for some reason I just can't manage it. I'm a type of person who looks at a half-empty glass and thinks it's fine, there's still half left. I know this optimistic view causes troubles, but I can't stop thinking the way. I hate having deadlines because they force me to push myself so hard just to meet them. Fortunately, I finished my piece today and will bring it to Kyoto tomorrow.
Now, I need to start preparing for the next art show in March. I'd love to enter two pieces this time and I'll have to manage my time much better. I absolutely need to learn how to manage my time.
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There are three kinds of people. There are people who finish tasks well before the deadline and those who finish just on the deadline and then there are the people who can't manage their time and they don't finish or have to ask for extensions.... I don't think you can't manage your time. You finished the day before the deadline. :)
@MusiqueGraeme Thank you for the encouragement. I like the way to think. I hope next time I'll manage my time a little bit better.
When I read your article I thought of a book called, Ordering your Private World, which is about this subject. Then I also thought of the message given by a professor when he brought into his class a bottle, some sand, stones, large stones and other material and challenged them to put all the material into the bottle. No one could. But then he showed them that if you put in the large stones first, then the smaller material can fit around the stones. The point was that we need to manage our time by focussing on what is really important - the large stones, get them in first and lots of other things will fit. I don't know if that will help you. Blessings
I believe, Yumi, that Japanese society has a very important value in what we could call "strict punctuality", is that true?
@MusiqueGraeme Thank you so much for sharing the stone story. That really makes sense to me. When I start falling behind schedule, I’d love to remember your stone story!!
@druida I have to say, YES! Our society is very punctual. So, when I go to other countries, and things don't go on time, they make me feel very frustrated and irritated. I don't like it.
Good luck with the art show!