Friday, April 22, 2005
What was I saying about focus?
Hmm. Yesterday I talked about the importance of focus for success. Today, after getting some billable work done, I organized the products I want to write reviews of, product that I have either used or wanted to test. I came up with 76, of which I've written 13 reviews so far.
Looks like a little bit of a focus problem, wouldn't you say? Well, at least with them gathered in one list I can make more intelligent choices of priorities then just drifting into what catches my attention at the moment. And that in itself is progress. I also organized my targets for syndicating articles and now need to get some articles into the format that the outlets want.
So there's my syndication project for One Stop and some billable maintenance work for tomorrow. Should keep me busy.
I feel like I should say something more than just publishing my to-do list, but the inspiration just isn't there tonight. I'm a little apprehensive over the fact that half of my work day went down today as the dreaded "organizing," but I'm keeping an eye on it to make sure it has a goal that gets attained and doesn't become an end unto itself.
That's too easy to do -- the old story of procrastinating by busying yourself with things that give the satisfaction of feeling really busy without having to deal with the accountability that comes from having to produce results. "Results? You can't expect tangible results from this. I'm just preparing for something I'm planning to do sometime in the future. I'm just organizing things so they'll go smoother when I actually get around to doing them."
Yeah, sure. Granted, there are times when you have to take time to organize. But you have to be careful to make sure to use those times as tools to accomplish something and not merely to put off the actual doing of things that have measurable results.
Jeff
Hmm. Yesterday I talked about the importance of focus for success. Today, after getting some billable work done, I organized the products I want to write reviews of, product that I have either used or wanted to test. I came up with 76, of which I've written 13 reviews so far.
Looks like a little bit of a focus problem, wouldn't you say? Well, at least with them gathered in one list I can make more intelligent choices of priorities then just drifting into what catches my attention at the moment. And that in itself is progress. I also organized my targets for syndicating articles and now need to get some articles into the format that the outlets want.
So there's my syndication project for One Stop and some billable maintenance work for tomorrow. Should keep me busy.
I feel like I should say something more than just publishing my to-do list, but the inspiration just isn't there tonight. I'm a little apprehensive over the fact that half of my work day went down today as the dreaded "organizing," but I'm keeping an eye on it to make sure it has a goal that gets attained and doesn't become an end unto itself.
That's too easy to do -- the old story of procrastinating by busying yourself with things that give the satisfaction of feeling really busy without having to deal with the accountability that comes from having to produce results. "Results? You can't expect tangible results from this. I'm just preparing for something I'm planning to do sometime in the future. I'm just organizing things so they'll go smoother when I actually get around to doing them."
Yeah, sure. Granted, there are times when you have to take time to organize. But you have to be careful to make sure to use those times as tools to accomplish something and not merely to put off the actual doing of things that have measurable results.
Jeff
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