Palm Revisited
Well, I think the honeymoon with my palm is now over. And I’m glad to say we’re still in love. As a mark of my devotion I’ve bought some rechargeable batteries for it. I’ve said to a few people that it has revolutionised my life and that sounds like so much hyperbole but it has brought a positive effect to every day since I bought it. The story goes something like this.
I am one of the most hopelessly disorganised people I know. I need to make a concerted effort to hold a plan in my head and still rarely succeed. When I was going out with/engaged to the lovely Jenny one of the most important things she brought to the party was structure. She was always able to point out a better thing to be spending my time on and had the patience and/or obstinacy to make me do it :-)
Anyhow. In the last year, the biggest cause of stress to me has been constantly having to try to work out wtf I should be doing now/next as I would always feel that if I began one thing I would be forgetting another - and I would usually be right. Friends will be familiar with the mantra ”I have to go home and sort my life out” which was my stock reason for not doing more sociable things all year. The truth of it was I was so hopelessly ineffectual at sorting out said life that the job did still need doing every day, week in week out.
This is where this fantastic little device comes in. You can write on it just like paper (almost), but unlike paper it will go BING at you when you have to be somewhere. Fantastic!
I haven’t always done as it has told me and I have still missed a few appointments and made a couple of administrative cock-ups, but there really has been an immeasurable improvement in the levels of getting-stuff-done-ness in my life!