This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.
Meditations 8:22a.
Persistent mild generalized sadness. That’s where I am right now.
I suspect it’s related to me not working on some tasks at the factory. My stack-ranking efforts are . . . well, I stack-rank my priorities but I don’t do them in that order.
Probably other reasons exist, too. But, let’s attack one thing at a time. What’s in front of me and actionable right now?
That’s why this little excerpt from Meditations hit home today. I reap the rewards (current emotional state) of what I do today. And for too many yesterdays, what I do today is not what I intend to do today.
Today at work, I will match actions to intentions. Here is the plan.
Use Work Cycles for the Target project.
- Prescheduled phone call. Unavoidable, brief. Do it. Be helpful to my fellow human, whoever he may be. EDIT: done.
- Respond to messages in email etc. with “later, can’t today.” EDIT: done.
- Target. EDIT: done.
- Lunch. Necessary to sustain the meat bag that I am. Walk briskly after eating for 30 minutes, for the man I am. EDIT: done and done. (NB: state of mind has improved.)
- Target. EDIT: done.
- Prescheduled phone calls. One is a deferrable administrative matter. Do it anyway. The other is work. Help him in the way he wants to be helped. EDIT: done and done.
- Gym. Go, even if all you do is some kettlebell squats ‘n wimpy lightweight stuff. I am afraid of going back after the fucking lockdown. EDIT: did not do. Will go do some push-ups and pull-ups at home.
- EDIT: did lots more Target instead. And I got a lot done. Yay me.
Will this help with The Sads? Probably not entirely, but I can do it. And it’s a start.
BFOTO! Look at how little attention is spent to Most Important Work. What am I going to do about that?
Exhortation to self: Get Some.
EDIT: net net, I’m in a better frame of mind at the of the workday.
I Got Some.