Archive for February 17th, 2009
Reduce: Workload
Work is busting my chops this week. And the week before. And the week before that. I had an unexpected trip to Melbourne last week and am now dealing with the work stemming from that. It’s crazy.
So the reduce post for today- reduce work. I need to reduce work. We all need to reduce work. Why?
When we’re so busy working for big companies, or little companies, or in small self-owned enterprise or whatever, we don’t have time for ourselves, we don’t have time for our families and we don’t have time for the environment.
This week, in an environmental sense, I have not had time to:
- Check my local Freecycle group for second-hand stuff
- Hunt for a second-hand computer plug since ours broke
- Think of a way to re-use some empty tins rather than recycle them
- Get the mower blades sharpened, which means I can’t mow the lawn, which means when I can mow the lawn it will be too long to mow with the push mower, which means we’ll have to use the whipper snipper, which is electric
- Get enough sleep so I wake up to get the bus to work (so Yankee Elv has been driving me)
- Create my compost bin
- Clean out my plant pots and start some herbs growing
- Tidy up my garden so I can plant some veges
- Write in this blog
- Sort out my time off so we can do some more local travel
- Work out a new system to take my lunch to work that doesn’t involve the use of plastic bags
- Register for Clean Up Australia day at work – which I helped organise!
That pisses me off. I want time for these things. I definitely want more time for my family. Any ideas on how I should manage this?
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