THis is a story that I had written a long time ago. I was having a day where my thoughts were racing so bad and so fast that there was no way of keeping up. I was wishing that I was able to open up my head and pour all the thoughts out my head and just look at them and organize them all. It was that cluttered.

Currently, the thoughts have slowed down so much. In matter of fact, I get brief periods of time where my head felt clear. Great feeling, I must say. At times, I think that the racing thoughts have stopped. Sucks when the person I am talking to points out that the way I am talking indicates that they are still racing. Oh well, guess that there are not as many collisions and wrecks. Who would think?

This was called my thought management plan and goes a lot like this.

Categorize thoughts

The first part of the plan was to categorize all the ideas. Ideas come in two different categories. Good ideas and bad ideas.  This simplifies things greatly. But beware of some of the ideas that go into the “good idea” category. Much caution had to go into this one. Sometimes the idea of organizing one’s sock drawer alphabetically by color seems like a good idea at first. Sometimes though, multicolored socks come into play, or socks which color is unidentifiable pop in. Now that one in is knee deep in socks all over the floor, the task is soon changed from a good idea to a bad idea quickly. So, beware of ideas like these.

Action Plan

Now that these ideas are categorized, it is time to come up with and action plan them. I personally have three different action plans. The first one is the ideas that I need to act on but do not want to. The second is the one that I want to act on but do not need to. The first one indicates a higher level of priority, but a low level of pleasure. The second one requires low priority but great pleasure. As for the third action plan is to talk somebody else into acting on. This is where you talk somebody into doing what you do not want to do. The goal here is to eliminate all items off the things you need to do but do not want to do list. I have yet to eliminate all items of this list but will persevere.  One day, I will conquer the having to do work thing and will only do things I want to do. At least I hope.