Mistakes and Lessons - Life Happens, Get Over IT!

Well, it's been quite a couple of days, I think maybe nearly 2 weeks since my last post. I have been kind of busy with moving out of my previous house. There was a ton of stuff to organise, sell and clean during the lead up to moving out. Now I'm working out new living arrangements, while also trying to sort out some stable work.

So basically, I've got quite a lot of "life stuff" to get sorted out. I have spent an abnormally large amount of time trying to get this stuff sorted. I've managed to waste 1 or 2 weeks of productive time while fumbling over living and work. All of this reminds of a Facebook post I once saw, some of you may have read about it. It's the poem of the professor and the mayonnaise jar. Here's a short Youtube version of what it's about.

Basically it's about priorities in life. Certain things like the sand in the jar are meaningless time fillers in life, some things are necessary but unimportant parts of life such as the small pebbles in the jar. Then there are the things in the jar that are truly important to us, the large stones in the jar. But it is interesting to note, if you pour sand in the jar first, then the pebbles, you'll never get the meaningful stones into the jar. This is all basically a metaphor, for putting the important things in life ahead in priority.

Relating this back to my issue of working on Gamer's  Life Convention 2013 and how life keeps getting in the way. I need to re-evaluate my approach to allocation of time. I've determined that stuff like living arrangements are like the small pebbles in life right now, I have to deal with them but they are not a priority. So I've decided that what isn't important but necessary, I'll get sorted out as quickly and efficiently as possible, albeit with some prudence so I don't make a bad decision that will cost me dearly in the long term. This will hopefully leave me with more time and focus for my own meaningful projects.

In Summary
- know what are the important goals in life for you
- when other necessary but less important things occur, deal with them quickly and efficiently
- try to leave unimportant things out of your life to leave time for more important things.