I have five books in various stages of done. A mentorship framework. An oracle deck system. An art therapy app. A cookbook. A website that's still being built. A homestead that needs fencing. A child who needs lunch.
From the outside, this looks scattered. From the inside, it's a rotation — and the rotation is the only system that actually works for the life I'm living.
Here's what a scattered person does: starts things and abandons them. Jumps to the next shiny idea because the last one got hard. Leaves a trail of half-built projects that never reach completion.
Here's what I do: build something until it reaches a phase that requires a kind of attention I don't currently have access to. Set it down. Pick up the one that fits the attention I do have. Keep moving.
The cookbook gets worked on when I'm already in the kitchen. The website gets edited after bedtime. The deep manuscript work waits for the rare stretch of uninterrupted hours. The voice notes and framework thinking happen on the move — walking the orchard, driving to town, standing at the sink.
Nothing is abandoned. Everything is in season or waiting for its season.
A farmer doesn't harvest all the fields on the same day. She reads the conditions and responds. This one's ready now. That one needs another week. The greenhouse gets attention in the morning when it's cool. The animals get fed at dusk.
That's not chaos. That's literacy.
She knows what needs what, and when, and she moves accordingly.
The only people who see this as a problem are people who've never grown anything that depends on conditions they can't control.
If you work in rotation — if you carry multiple living projects and move between them based on capacity, season, and the shape of your actual days — you're not scattered.
You're fluent in something most productivity systems refuse to account for: a life that doesn't hold still.
If something moved while you were reading — there's more where this came from.