I have just made a last minute decision to skip a trade show I was booked up for and put in a day's work at my desk instead. It made superb sense. I might miss out on a few longer term things but I have a big meeting tomorrow where the short term stuff will be under some scrutiny. I have had a couple of things outside my control that have derailed my work a little. So here I am ready to get things back on track and with a load of extra hours I hadn't budgeted for earlier in the week. So far, so good.
But am I forging ahead making the best of all this extra time? Er, no. I am dithering about. It isn't that I am exactly wasting time. Everything I have done needs to be done. But somehow none of it is the urgent stuff that I diverted myself to get on with. It isn't as if I don't have a plan or a worked out strategy. There is just something so appealing about quick jobs that you can spend a few minutes on.
So how do I tackle this? I think I need some serious shutting off of distractions. I have to get away from the computer and focus on what I have to do. Seek out the whales and ignore the herrings. Otherwise I will be busy, productive, totally engaged and totally failing to achieve what I need to achieve.
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