We all have needs …
Well, it’s Monday. The fourth Monday of the forth week of actively working on Mar’s Time Management series. And since it’s after 6pm, it’s been Monday all day for me. A Monday of two steps forward one step back.
I won’t bore you with the details. But, I will say that Tuesday will be spent trying to do what Monday should have done.
I’m just grateful I’ve been able to use Mark’s series to work though this mess.
After this, I should be able to handle a tornado coming through my head with both left and right sides playing patty cake.
Mark makes two points in his recent post, Avoid the Sisyphus Effect of Endless To-do Lists, that speak to my Monday(’s’ as in plural).
1) You need to install a buffer between others’™ demands and your response. Otherwise you’ll end up in permanently anxious and unproductive ‘reaction mode’.
2) You need to find a way of fulfilling your commitments and giving others what they need from you within a reasonable timescale. Otherwise you’ll quickly gain a reputation for unreliability and pay the penalty.
Needs. Yeah. I have needs. They have needs.
And I’ll be right there next week when Mark reveals how to balance my need number one with need number two.
In the meantime, I’d like this Monday to be over. Like, yesterday.
My responses to Mark’s weekly questions:
What effect do interruptions have on your creativity?
I get cranky. Just like today.
Do you recognise the Sisyphus effect? What does it do to your motivation levels?
What motivation?
Today I had eleven things on my list. All eleven were doable. Due to day long snafus, only three were x’d off.
Half of those were left over from last week. The half still on the list.
So, what started out as this morning as YEAH I have a list!! and Yeah! I’m organised! has changed to unmentionable mumbles.
My personal motivation levels at this moment?
Low. Very low.
I’m wondering what on my list I can make do without.
What difference would it make to your working life if being derailed by others’ demands was the exception rather than the rule?
After the last couple of weeks, I’d say early retirement would be in the cards.
Note: I can’t blame it all on other peeps. I’m at least partially to blame in this mix of a mess this past week.
BUT, I can blame at least 90% on the reno progress, the computer shop, the postal system, the traffic, the water delivery people, the lack of sleep …
What difference would this make to your creativity?
What creativity? :-D
(I’m not whining. Honest. Well. Ok. Maybe just a bit)
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