Take it Easy - Dil pe math le!

Everyone I guess goes through this transformation in AI management at some point from being totally not organized to some form of organized way. I am here to share my journey on this.

Initially I used to be proud of myself of not having to write anything down because I thought I never postpone anything actionable. If something was there to be done, it will be done then and there, here and now - kind of world. This is the best situation to be in and may be the challenge level of tasks I attempted to own and do were within my capacity to promote that mental make up. I even used to brag about this to others that how can you not reply to something soon after reading it; or keep a backlog of unread mails. That's preposterous proposition then.

From here, as you shift from being an individual doer to a managerial role and/or when you expand your interest to many other things and/or when you enlarge your social circle and/or offlate become active in the new buzz of social networking, you tend to be inundated with too much of traffic than you can manage. It becomes too much of a pain to cull out AIs, manage your must-read or catch-up list and things accrue just like the stuff you keep.

At times, to do away with the guilt feeling I do some Bulk shift delete action on all the subscription based mailers. So much for keeping one updated with latest technology trends, industry happenings, favourite open source projects etc...

On AI management, I have observed something wierd. Obviously there are going to be various islands of priority with which your AIs will evolve. Besides work, my other buckets are - financial, personal, family, leisure, read-list, household, automobile and various sub-categories under these.

Doing this creates an awareness first and then a kind of weariness of looking at ageing AIs. But recently I had an experience of few really long pending AIs being knocked off just like that without much of effort from my end. Suddenly it looks like nature has decided that the time has come for one to help Ramesh Sriraman to be out of that AI/trouble. A helping hand shows up and eases the situation.

I really don't know how to explain this - power of sub-conscious mind or one just needs to talk about the problem and it will be solved or every dog has its day or something else... My learning out of this is to take it easy; a time will come for everything to be cleared. Dil pe math le, yaar.