Create an Organized Schedule
By Finding Ways to Subtract

Keeping the organized schedule that you have worked so hard to get is very difficult.

Other people and circumstances will always be pulling at you, taking up your time.

I get really irritated and frustrated when I do not have the free time that I have been working so hard to create. Sometimes life throws frustrations at me.

When I am unable to subtract anything from my organized schedule except for the things I really want to do, that is really frustrating.

I remember a time a year of so ago where I really struggle with this. I had been stuck doing a lot of things I do not want to do and even some of the things I want to do were taking too long.

Look at my list and see if you can relate:

1. My son had been playing high school football. He played on the junior varsity and varsity team so I went to 2 games every week. These games take about 2 -1/2 hours. Plus I had to get there early to get a good parking spot and seat and stay late to take him home after the game.

2. My daughter was getting braces so there was a bunch of orthodontist appointments.

3. My ex-wife has been very difficult lately. Every interaction with her is, if not a disaster, at least a potential disaster.

4. Work has been very frustrating because my projects have not been worked on that much.

These things are all additions to my schedule and frustrations to work through. I cannot subtract them. At least football season is over now, so that is a relief. Plus he did not get injured.

Dealing with my ex-wife is always the worst. I just never know what will happen when I deal with her. It is a reminder why I had to leave her, but I wish she could be nice to me. It is not only the time spend directly with her but it is also the time before and after. Before, it is wondering how she is going to be. After it is just so upsetting.

I hate having my organized schedule depend on others, but at times like this, it does.

The last month or so has been just jam-packed with these things plus others so the activities I want to do, I don't do. That is what I mean by your life not being your own.

Here are the things I have not been doing:

1. Lifting weights.

2. Walking very much.

3. Cleaning my apartment.

4. Going out at night.

5. Working on my business and writing very much.

6. Studying my goals and dreams.

7. Writing articles.

These things are what I want to do with my time, so when they get pushed aside, I get upset.

You will probably say something like, what's the big deal? Everyone gets busy and can't always do what they want.

That is exactly what I am talking about.

Isn't YOUR life for doing what YOU want? That is what I am trying to get to. I want MY life to be about what I want to do, not what I get forced to do. That is what I have been doing for over 40 years and I am getting sick of it.

When I do what I want to do with my organized schedule, I am very happy. When I am forced, or manipulated or guilted into doing things I really do not want to do, I get upset. I get frustrated. I get irritated.

I try all the normal ways people normally deal with a lack of time:

1. I stay up later.

2. I get up earlier.

3. I do everything faster.

4. I hurry.

5. I let things slide.

6. I just suck up and deal with it.

But look at what happens when you do things this way:

1. You stay up late and then are tired, grumpy, more prone to illness and you overeat to stay alert.

2. You get up earlier. This is the same as staying up later. Then you never feel that good.

3. Doing things faster is ok unless it is the things that you want to do that you are forced to do faster. Meaning you do not get to spend more time doing the things you want to do.

4. Again, there is nothing wrong with hurrying as long as you can hurry through things that you do not want to do. I am talking about the irritation of hurrying through things you want to do.

5. I do not want to let what I want to do slide.

6. To me, just sucking it up all the time and taking what life dishes out, is not much of a life. I spend too many years doing it this way and do not want to continue that path.

You really need to find ways to subtract these frustrating things from your organized schedule if you are to have a good life.

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