Weekly Report 2021 w04
Word of the week: Moderation - Everything in moderation - including moderation, they say. Often times you realise what moderation is once you're past the point, but it's more important that it's noticed and put into practice once it's noticed. I'm sure there's more to it, but there will be plenty of opportunity to learn about that, too.
By the end of January the intent was to transfer thoughts from the head to writing; how the operations of band project go. It's meant to lay down basic guidelines for the team; from the visual thinking principles all the way to the technical combined with musical. I've managed to produce the intended result - main draft for each area - though it's still a little bit rough around the edges. I didn't have a particular goal in mind for that, besides, I'll have it tested (sent to a few people to see if it makes sense) before I judge the result.
In the last week of January a surprise came in the form of something that implied a slight burnout. It came on thursday, when I found myself not knowing where to begin and even when I did realise what I'll be working on, I "couldn't" start. I realised what's in the making and took some measures to deal with the matter. I worked on the areas that weren't related to the work, knowing that forcing myself will yield negative results anyway.
One of my favourite turnouts of January is that even with clear goal in mind, result in the end is good, even though not exactly what I expected. I'm happy that the result is full of content that clearly sets the direction, but is flexible enough so that it can be improved upon.
Lessons of the week:
- Mental tasks take more energy than they seem to.
- Write down even things that don't need writing down, for tracking purposes.
- Allocate the time for administration as work time, not on top of the work time. Over the week there are many things I need to take care of that aren't bandproject related but I didn't allocate time for it. The result is too many things on my mind to be taken care of and mental exhaustion comes crashing down. Even for unexpected things, everything in moderation.
- Having the same environment for work and off-work is counterproductive for both. I need to find solution for it.