Strategy Meeting – The Climb #914

Tuesday 24th August 2021

After several days of social and physical interactions, today I’m exhausted. My legs ache from all the walking and driving, and my eyes feel heavy with fatigue. This isn’t a surprise and I expect a few slow days as my body recovers.

Of course, I had to take the hire car back and then walk back across town. This took several hours. I did a load of thumbnail pictures for future editions of The Climb and took a few breaks when I found somewhere to sit down.

As I walked I had a bit of a strategy meeting with myself. I thought about my medium and long term aims and what I need to do. I popped open ToDoist and noted a few tasks as I walked.

With September round the corner we’re about to enter the last third of the year. There’s a lot of things that need focus; some new, some further stages of existing projects. But because things seem likely to overrun, I feel very behind. I’m very way that the Tsunami of summer projects I’ve not completed yet is about to crash into my autumn goals and create an awful mess.

I’m trying to tell myself that a lot of the reason for this upcoming task explosion is because I’ve taken on too much. Thinking back as I walked across town, I don’t feel I’ve been particularly lax this year. I’ve got a lot done… it’s just I had even more to do.

The walking brought into stark reality the work I need to do on my health. This has been a long journey and to be honest, I don’t think I would have managed most of the walking I did these past few days if it had been six months ago. Doesn’t stop my back aching, my knee feeling like it wants to give way.

A big priority is going to be health. Get that right, I’ll have more energy for the other stuff. Part of the reason for taking a load of thumbnails for The Climb is so that, when combined with the ones on my Desktop PC, I’ll have about a year of surplus. That’ll give me time to get myself in shape and have a dramatic reveal. Stupid I know, but it’s partly me giving myself permission time to get things back on track.

And despite feeling even more exhausted from the walk across town, I did manage to get a few things done. I got my weekly admin done. I got the thumbnails done for the backlog of The Climb, I filled in my social media calendar of posts I made whilst away. There wasn’t anything here particularly engaging or involved, but getting most of my admin backlog done when I was so tired I fell asleep most of the afternoon and also on the support bubble sofa was pretty good going.

I feel most of what I need to do revolves around habits, and I feel I need to do a bit of work on that. I have an audiobook of Atomic Habits to listen to but haven’t had chance to do so whilst away as I also want to make notes. The plan is to build some system in Notion to aid it… but in my own head I need to split out habits, routines and tasks because I know they are each distinct… I just don’t know how yet.

With September looming, so my focus this week becomes about evaluating and regrouping. There’s lots to be done and I don’t think I’m going to get it all completed. I need to know what can slip into 2022 and what really needs to get done