Plate Spinning Productivity: Don’t look now, but.. it’s working!

The idea behind plate-spinning is to keep as many of my projects up in the air and spinning as possible, with as little effort as possible. Read about it here, here and here too.

With my recent lapses in brain-care, you’d think my productivity would have gotten off track, and my projects would have all fallen by the wayside.

My focus was poor, my energy tanked, and I generally felt like I didn’t get a thing done. Funny thing, though… when I sat down to look at where I am from a plate-spinning perspective, it ain’t at all bad. What I think I’ve gotten done and what I’ve actually gotten done are two different things.

Here are my current plates/projects, all of which are in beta-test mode right now.

• This Blog: Spinning I’ve manged to post decent content regularly. I’ve kept up with comments, commented on other blogs, and done some fine-tuning to the design and code.
• Personal Finances: Spinning Everything is up to date, and paid on time. Those taxes still need doing.
• Housework: Spinning This one is a shocker. But I’m actually getting somewhere, starting to keep up, and even <gasp> get ahead. Granted, my inbasket is overflowing, but that’s just an hours work or so.
• Fine & Graphic Art: Spinning I ordered supplies, and the projects I’ll be working on next are pretty well defined in my head.
• Health: Spinning Though this wobbled badly while I had the poison ivy, by noting the problems here, I put them back into my head, and they’re sort of auto-correcting.

So While I lost focus for 2-3 weeks, my projects had enough momentum that they took very little effort to keep moving along. I didn’t put any new projects in the air, but nothing is wobbling. I apparently caught all of the problems before the projects could crash.

How cool is that?

Plate Spinning actually works as a productivity method. Without conscious effort, I’m balancing my projects, maintaining momentum, and as an added benefit? even better is he shift in my attitude after completing this review.

When I started this review post, I was overwhelmed. I felt behind on everything, anxious, and upset that I had slacked off while feeling sickly.

Now that I’ve looked at the situation, I realize that instead of being “behind” and in danger of a crash, I have some room to breathe. None of my plates are in danger of falling, so I can put my energy wherever I like, whether it’s with one of these projects, something new, personal, or just goofing off

I’d really like to make a chart of some sort to give the review process a more visual aspect, so I’ll add that to my Next Projects List:

• Used Book Sales (pre-alpha)
• Book Writing (alpha — the software is ready to go)
• Plate Tracking Chart (pre-alpha)

So there you have it. An MT original method, that is actually, actively working.

MindTWEAK: Isn’t it great when things just work?