I've been having a problem with focus.

As in, I have none. Usually, it'll last a couple of hours, maybe a day tops, but last few days have been difficult. I can't seem to finish anything, I decide I want to do something, start doing it, then decide I don't want to anymore. This is completely different than having a million different ideas all jumbled in my head when I'm writing a story. When that happens, I can write down my ideas, maybe even play around with them a little bit, and then return back to the task at hand. Even when I'm reading. A word I don't know will come up, or it'll spark my interest about a topic the book or the characters are talking about, and I'll stop mid page to go look it up, most of the time, leading to me starting to read something totally different. Even that I can deal with, because in the end, I always finish what I started.

That is not how it's been around here.

I can't even finish a sudoku puzzle. I love sudoku puzzles. Seriously. I can (usually) do them for hours, quite happily I might add. I've barely been able to read anything. I get a paragraph in and my mind wanders and I lose interest and patience in something I very much wanted to do, five minutes ago. It's frustrating as can be. Believe you me. This is one of those times where I feel like I should seriously consider the possibility that I have ADD, or something similar.

So, thus I believe that something needs to change.

I have a list of responsibilities that I need to attend to today. However, there is sufficient time after these duties have been fulfilled, to engage in more frivolous activities. What I propose is a two part solution to the situation I find myself in currently.

Part I: Multitasking Overdrive
I suggest to myself, that I put in front of me, the following items:
-1 'Eye of the World' book
-1 Sudoku puzzle book
-1 box of 64 crayons
-1 black pentel pen
-1 black composition notebook
-1 stack of plain white paper
-1 Mensa mental challenge puzzle book
-1 pair of scissors
-1 deck of cards

After the previously mentioned items are in one cozy place, I should proceed to sit down in front of them all. Once an appropriate level of comfort has been achieved and a proper amount of time has been selected, I'd say about an hour, I'll begin with reading the book.

Seems simple right? There's a catch.

I can only spend five minutes doing each thing, before moving on to the next one. That's right. I'm going to give myself exactly what I want. Kind of. The idea here, is to really get into something, want to keep going, but not be able to because the five minutes are up. I want to bore the lack of focus out of my mind.

Once this mindset has been attained, I can move on to...

Part II: A Room in Focus
The plan here, is to finish everything that I started in Part I. Upon completion, I should have the following in front of me:
-3 more chapters read in the 'Eye of the World' book
-3 Difficulty level Sudoku puzzles completed
-1 box of 64 crayons
-1 black pentel pen
-2 pages (at least) filled with words in my black composition notebook
-White paper that is no longer so plain
-3 more pages of the Mensa mental challenge puzzle book finished
-1 pair of scissors
-2 won games of solitaire

At this point, I should be able to accomplish almost anything. I will have finished a bundle of different things, feel good, refocused, and ready to take on the world ahead of me, and more importantly, the projects that I actually want to focus on.

If all goes well, and I think it will, I'll post picture of my puzzles and my creations on here tomorrow. I'll be focused enough to get it done. Right?

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty

PS.Totally can not believe I actually through writing this entire blog without stopping or pausing to do or look at something else. Go me!