Fix, Create or Learn – how to spend my day…

Okay, it’s Friday and I admit I’m procrastinating… horribly.

By hammering out this post to you I’m also working on getting my creative juices flowing though, so either way it’s gonna serve a purpose. (at least that’s how I’m justifying it in my own mind)

Time Management.

There are walls of books in the library and aisles of them at your local Barnes & Noble that discuss all aspects of managing your time. My current favorite happens to be Leo Babauta’s The Power of Less… but let me give you a hint… don’t buy the book.

Just read Leo’s Blog “Zen Habits” instead – the book pulls a bunch of his favoite posts and dresses them up in book format. He even says so in his blog!

(No offense, Leo… I read your blog and have your book already… I’m just sayin’)

So instead of reinventing the wheel and blathering on about time management, I’m going to share my current quandry, and by writing this post, I’m also going to solve it.

I’m struggling with what to do today. I have 3 important tasks the lie ahead of me. I could:

1. Fix some stuff on my blog/social networking sites/product memberships that have been bugging me but I just haven’t gotten around to fixing. or
2. Create the wireframes & mockups on the badly-needed redesign/relaunch of Niche Dominator, which has the potential of bringing in more revenue if done properly. or
3. Lastly, I could LEARN. I’m ecstatic, mystified and captivated by the capabilities of this new Canon EOS 5D Mark II as well as Final Cut Studio. (Full-frame, 35mm Photos AND Video? Are you effin’ kidding me?) Seriously, with these two together, the possibilities are endless. I want to know everything there is to know about both so I can create awesome videos and photos to include in #2 above.

So here I am – trying to figure it out. Learning would be more fun, and I’m certainly more excited about it. But I also need to make sure revenues keep coming in from my (awesome!) customer-base, and to keep them happy I need to fix some of the stuff in #1 – even if it’s barely (if at all) noticable to the folks who see it regularly.

I’m a techno-perfectionist at heart and if I know something isn’t right – even though you can barely notice it – it’s like having a burr in your sock. I can’t handle it.

So now I’ve figured it out… I’m gonna do #2, then to reward myself for achievement I may hit some #3 during lunch, then if there’s any time left over, I’ll hammer out some #1 for good measure (as well as my own sanity).

Hope this helps you as much as it did me.