Yesterday worked. Planned, stuck with the plan.
Lesson learned: days with lots of interruptions and task switching are unproductive days. Well, except that they produce a bunch of tiny results. Phone call accomplished, etc.
Lesson learned: the afternoon is a dead zone for me intellectually and for energy. I’ll have to figure out how to ride the waves. The standard “eat lunch and come back” produces unacceptable results. I might as well leave at noon. Idea: a longer break in the middle of the day, with a run or a gym visit in there.
Let’s plan today.
- Preconfigured call with team member.
- Target task.
- Preconfigured call with customer.
- Target task.
- Lunch. (I’m going to try the gym thing today. The bag is in my car).
- Target task.
- Preconfigured call with team member.
Another lesson learned: I’m going to block out entire days for no calls. And days where I bunch them up.
And use Work Cycles.
I have to say that a few days of steady action like this and The Sads aren’t pressing me hard. That’s good.
One more thing. I got the reading in this morning. Meditations, of course.
It’s what the old guys said: you can’t think your way into right actions, but you can act your way into right thinking.
It goes without saying that you can’t think your way into right thinking, all by yourself. You need external, human help. Your own best thinking got you where you are today. You need someone else’s ideas, and the humility to accept them and put them into practice.