First let me explain just a bit. I’m a self-employed (and very proud of that) massage therapist. I do seated massage for the staff at Providence Home Health and Hospice office. It’s about to come to an end. I finish up this stint the end of this month. I really like it but I’ll be glad when I don’t have to get up at 5:30am 2-3 days a week, just once a week for my business meeting. But when they want me back I’ll be ready. Anyway, on my breaks I scribble this and that. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it does not, but I like it. So here is one of the “notes” on my yellow pad.
July 22nd @ Providence Home Health and Hospice, Everett WA
I always feel so productive when I come here. I make “To Do Lists” between clients, text fam & friends. The only disappointment is I don’t have my computer with me. Maybe I should get a cute bag and start taking it everywhere. I can’t feed my addiction to blogging if it isn’t here. Or can I? I’m just writing on the back of my “To Do List” for last week. That’s close.
I don’t know what it is about this place, but I feel like I can get anything done. Maybe it’s the structure of my day, maybe the energy of the place. Here I feel like Super Woman. Or maybe it’s the 24 oz sugar free vanilla latte I drink every time I come here.
I feel like I have a real job. I think, perhaps, it’s been slowly working it s way into the other areas of my life. I actually get up and do things, like organizing my new shelf. I kept the kitchen clean all weekend. I finally got a shelf for my pots and pans so now my counter and stove aren’t cluttered. I feel like I can think more clearly. I can breathe. Now if I can just muster up the courage to de-spider apartment.
I was reading your post here about your lists on paper and how you feel more productive at Providence. I want to suggest a book I read a few years ago that really effected the way I get things done. I am so much more productive since I have read it. It’s called “Getting Things Done Fast” by: David Allen. There are some videos with him on YouTube and I am sure you can read a few pages of the book from Amazon.com if you feel so inclined.
Lists are part of his methodology for getting things done. creating them on paper or your phone (like I do) whatever. It’s pretty cool how to learn to manage that stuff and get things checked off the list when you have a spare moment to yourself.