I watched Hurricane Bianca: From Russia With Hate so you don’t have to.
(Please do not give this film 85 minutes of your life unless you really, really like drag queens.)

Paired with crappy Thai food — my most recent of at least three lackluster attempts to find a new place after my favorite of 15 years closed — it was truly the cherry on top of a pretty silly weekend.

With my husband out of town, I had grand plans to set up our new kitchen:

📦 reclaiming the living areas that had become cardboard jungles
🏡 finding homes for everything across approximately 17 times more cabinet and drawer space
🧹 cleaning at least enough to walk barefoot on the wood floors for the first time in two and a half months

And then the plague rolled in, like so much tumbleweed on a cloud of drywall dust.

So I changed my plans to hydrate, rest, and recover so I’m back in fighting shape for a quick cruise with my bestie this week.

Psych! I pushed myself too hard, attempted to do All The Things™, and ran myself ragged. Works every time!

It was my last weekend to get things done until the week before Thanksgiving, and I’m so tired of being a walking dust bunny.

Overwhelmed with the 4.7 million things I could do, I found myself wandering around the house just staring at things.

Actual photo of me from the weekend:

If only I’d had the presence of mind to used the system my coach shared with me during our session a couple of weeks ago.

Y’know Kanban? Japanese for “signboard,” it’s a simple system for managing projects with individual tasks that dance across various stages of progress until they limp across the finish line.

This is not that. But it’s kinda close!

I’m now using a Can-Do board.

Mine is the whiteboard I bought years ago because I thought I could be a whiteboard person, covered in a manageable collection of baby-pink sticky notes with individual tasks I’m to tackle (gasp!) one at a time.

🗒️ When I’m ready to start, I move a sticky note to the bottom of my monitor and dig in.
🖊️ And when I’m done, I get to cross that task off with my teal Sharpie and put it in my finished pile.
🫧 Rinse and repeat.

The sticky notes represent the same shitstorm that lives in my ClickUp. But with only one task to focus on, that storm has been downgraded to a 94% chance of scattered rabbit turds 🐇

We’re almost a full month into Q4, and if you’re looking back at everything you haven’t done yet this year and everything you have to do before the year is over, first of all: Knock it off. (Again with the “do as I say, not as I do.”)

Time is fake.
You have as much time as you need.

But if you’re still some degree of whelmed, may I suggest a Can-Do Board to manage it?

Chonk those hairy, OMG-inducing projects down into the smallest individual tasks possible.

I’m talking “spend 15 minutes brainstorming lead magnet ideas.” “Outline X website page.” “Plan two months of email topics.”

Not “write two months of emails.” Just the topics.

And every day, pick one or two to tackle.

You can do it — like the board says.

Break out the teal Sharpie, cuz this one’s done.