So Much Choice

It is clear by the frequency of my writing these days that I have managed to lure myself out of hibernation for the time being. (I like the analogy - a hibernating writer!) I have found my 'get up and go' and I am going to take full advantage of my current disposition - wish I could learn some dedication, but I guess I'll have to take what I can get.
My problem today is that there is so much I want to do. I can think of worse problems and I'm sure you can too. This is all part of the positive thinking drive I am taking, part of the 'learning about Buddhism' movement. Positive thinking is getting better, I think. It can be hard to tell, the mind is a complex organ and when it begins to think, sometimes I just can't keep up. But that is what mind control is all about - being able to control the thoughts you are having in order to be able to view with clarity and insight. I have to say, I not there yet (this was meant to take a week...I'm on week two already), but I want to do this properly. Otherwise, what's the point?
The point is that when you open your mind, there is an awful lot to take in. This is not a bad thing; it just leads to some difficult choices, or an entire week of never going to sleep. I have started reading journals and review magazines, aside from the reading I do on a day to day basis. I have started writing for my forum groups again and I still want to write daily for myself. There is no way I can fit all of this in during a regular working week, so how do I deal with the infux of knowledge and information?
Perhaps I should pick up the first thing I read on any given day and give that topic my full attention for the rest of the day. I might choose to read a literary review first thing in the morning, as I did today. Taking today as an example, I would have spent the rest of the day looking for other feminist articles based on De Beauvoir's The Second Sex and creating my own writings around this topic. But this seems to me a very shallow approach to writing on a certain topic. Surely you need more than a day to study De Beauvoir alone, without all the other commentators. When I get down to something I like to do it properly, anything else is just bad form.
I may be heading towards an answer here. I like to have my life rigidly set out into sections, but I also live with the understanding that most of the time life just isn't like that. So here is my compromise to myself: I should discover my topic first thing in the morning, through reading an article or extract, checking my mood and deciding how I am placed for that day. When I have decided on my topic of choice, be it creative writing, politics, the feminine or whatever, I should decide on a time frame to give that topic - a piece of creative writing may only last a day, feminism on the other hand could last at least a week(!) I will see if in this way I can limit the scope of the writing I look at without needing to levave anything out. I don't want to feel like I am spreading myself too thinly, nor do I want to feel I am spread too thick!
Having discovered some fascinating facts about De Beauvoir and her writing today, I got so caught up in covering as much ground as possible, that I left her and her musings somewhere behind, waiting for a more interested soul to retrieve them. That soul should have been me. The other writings will wait. That is the wonderful thing about writing, it will never go away.