The one minute manager was awful. So was 'who moved my cheese.' My memories of these books are pretty vague, but I seem to recall being forced to read them by an employer.

I also like the idea of being so passionate about something that it doesn't feel like work. I have too many ever changing passions for that... and I also really doubt that there's any job that is pure bliss. Everything has it's advantages and disadvantages. I enjoy some of the agricultural stuff I do as a hobby and have considered getting a job more aligned with those activities... but the money is a huge drawback.

Writing movie scripts sounds like fun, but maybe it wouldn't be if you had a deadline to meet and a producer who wanted you to write in a part for his dreadful sister-in-law or make massive edits you know are wrong. The truth is that there is no job that is just writing movie scripts all day - 70% of it is probably networking and schmoozing.

So, it is a nice idea, but for me it is in the same category as winning the lottery. It would be nice but it's not realistic.

I don't know what my problem is with these unfinished projects. I have a few hours today to actually pick one up and work on it, but am I doing that? Nope. Is it ADD? I don't really know. I think I have really unrealistic expectations about how long it takes to do something... and there's also this weird sense that I can't really do X until I do Y and Y is something along the lines of 'get my life/house in order.' You'd think it would be easier to just sit down and work on something than it is. When it comes down to it, I really don't need to make this complicated or think about how long it will take me to do X or why I want to do a, b, and c and which one should I pick today. I need to just pick one and do it. My BF pointed out that I started one of these projects 4 years ago. Crazy.

Yeah, today it definitely feels like I have 60 million things I want to do and I can't pick one - so I just don't do any, or I start one and then move on to something else.

It would be great if getting a freelance client triggered something that resulted in a ton of work coming in at your day job! If you had to give up some free time, it would just be temporary. You don't have to commit to a freelance career, just get one client... or volunteer project?

Time for me to set a timer and try to focus...