Sun, 14 Aug 2011

Lack of Time? (A Look Back)

I wrote this in April, 2008, and nothing much has change in the intervening three years. I'm wondering if there is just too much going on that interests me or if things which don't really interest me clamor for my attention and I loose focus on anything which can't be completed in a single sitting. Guess I may never know, as it takes more than once sitting to find out!

Original blog entry below

I just revised one of my web pages and got to thinking about the lack of focus for the website and my efforts in general. My first thought was that this is due to a lack of time. But, upon reflection, I got to thinking that might not be the answer. Hey! I had time to reflect . . . hmmm . . . is lack of time really the answer? Maybe it isn't really lack of time. Maybe it's last of focus. Maybe I am just not interested enough in any one subject to take the time to really devote effort to expanding it over the long haul? I seem to get started on something, work on it for a period of time, and then drop it. I am constantly rewording parts of the website in which I state something like, "watch for developments as I work on . . . ". I never seem to actually develop anything, at least not to the extent I intended when I told visitors to " . . . check back for further developments."

The most disconcerting thing is that I often drop the entire project all together. That is, not only don't I keep up the efforts of documenting it on line. I actually don't continue the project as I thought I might when I first considered it. There are also lots of parts of the site which are partially developed. I get to a particular point and tend to loose interest.

No, loose interest probably isn't the actual problem. I'm still often interested in the subject. It's just that I tend to get interested in something else more! I think that there may be just too much input. Too many demands on the old gray matter (and possibly too few brain cells left as I get older to process all that input).

Maybe some of the problem is discipline. I lack the discipline to follow through on something that is not of immediate interest or which takes longer than one or two sessions to resolve?

Do I seem to be rambling? Does it seem that I won't reach any conclusion on this article. Does it seem like I'll just trail off . . .

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