Get Everything Done

I had a situation tonight where I could have worked on about a dozen things, large and small. And the choice of what to do first was paralyzing (mainly because it's late, I'm tired, I had some physical energy but not much brain energy, and all I could think of was more things to do).

After a bit of deliberation, I fed the tasks (including some fun, relaxing stuff) into random.org's List Randomizer. I decided to do the first two or three and then re-randomize. I wound up just doing the first one -- write a blog post -- which took an hour. I thought I'd just do a little bit of work on the blog post but I got absorbed and finished it off. I would *never* have chosen that task on my own, with AF or FV or anything else, simply because I thought beforehand that I didn't have the energy or focus for it.

I also decided, after finishing the post, that I didn't need to do anything else on the randomized list for the evening. I felt satisfied that I had used my time well.

I have to say -- using the randomizer is pretty wild. It challenges my expectations. It will be interesting to see how long I continue using it and for what.