Gaming the cosmos

My To Do List for November is suspiciously short at the moment, something that's never a good sign in a Headcount = 1 world. In fact it's so short that I've decided to spend the week pushing on with some of those creative projects that have been on the back-burner for eleven months.

The pattern is so obvious that I feel like a fool: due to factors I can perhaps explain but not ameliorate my consulting business goes into a brief hiatus every northern autumn. In the past this has reduced me to an intolerant and therefore intolerable puddle of doubt but this year I'm forewarned and thus forearmed. So I'm going to trust that the business cycle will pick up in a month and devote my surplus time and energy to those Second Act projects (note the date of this!) that have lain fallow.

Of course I do this with the sly belief that when the world wants something done it gives the task to someone who is busy already. Experience has taught me that if I commit to (as yet) unpaid projects with the intensity I take to paid ones then paying clients will come knocking.

Does the cosmos care if I'm gaming it?