First thing this morning I started to write but couldn’t find my favorite pen. It’s silver with one of those soft squishy plastic things you hold on to and it’s refillable with some ink gel cartridge that just glides across the paper when I use it. Now this might seem silly to focus so much attention on a lost and then found pen.
Yes, it’s only a minor interruption and yes it only took me a few minutes to find it. Yet our minds can only focus on so many things at a time? By the time I found it I had become distracted. I lost the focus of what I had planned to write. I’m now writing about this pen instead.
What is it that gets you off track during the day? It may be something major or something little. Noticing what keeps us stuck and what interrupts us are important before we can solve them. I’ve now decided to put my favorite pen away in the same place every night.
You can’t solve the problem until you recognize it.
What is it that gets you off track during the day?
Email and coworkers can get me off track. I’ve learned to turn off outlook and put on headphones, or just leave early and get the work done at home.
Comment by Tommy — November 17, 2008 @ 6:24 am