Yesterday’s schedule was killed with an unexpectedly long Tuesday that returned me to my hotel room about midnight.
A project–really three projects–is going down. What should have been just cruising at this point is more like a sailboat in a hurricane.
Rather than my usual discipline of writing at 6:30 am, today it’s 12 CDT and I’m at the Chicago airport awaiting my delayed flight to Dayton. Only 40 minutes. Not bad.
So I look at my projects plus my regular research and writing plus answering a bunch of emails. What to do?
I look at the mass of problems, then take some deep breaths.
Then tackle one thing at a time.
Contact this person. Contact the next. Compile information, contact the next person.
Think through one problem; reach a conclusion; take action.
Then the next.
I’ve been up 7 hours and been able to accomplish a lot notwithstanding a short nap on the last flight and grabbing a quick lunch.
You can get overwhelmed and flustered.
Better is looking at the list and tackling one thing at a time.
October 4, 2018 at 5:20 pm |
Grace and peace I understand
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