In my experience when a person doesn't know what to do with himself, he will check his email. So with a blank and troubled mind I strolled into the office of the pension, and stood in line waiting for the one super-slow email connection.
I wonder how much more I could get done if it wasn't for One More Thing.
I encounter an inordinate number of time sucks throughout my day. Things like:
- Checking my email
- Checking my Sitemeter stats
- Checking the Seattle PI and Seattle Times homepage
- Check for updates on Fark
- Clearing that shelf
- Refilling my coffee
- Charging my iPod
- Filing my email
- Deleting my email
- Sorting my attachments
Each of these activities may only take a few seconds. I can do them while I'm waiting on hold, or while I'm waiting for Windows to do something. Or for a computer to reboot. Or in between big projects. The do a great job of filling those small gaps.
The problem is that anyone of these tasks can lead me astray. What starts out as a 30 second task can easily turn into a 5 minute or 10 minute task. And when I factor in a bunch of them, it adds up.
The result? Well, I have about 20 "project" blog posts I haven't had time to write because all these little things during the day interfere.
I'm beginning to think that trying to make the best use of those stray minutes throughout the day is actually counter productive.
5 comments:
All those things give you breaks during the day. So your brain can recharge. Godd bless em.
I know what you mean. Another area that seems to take up more time than benefits reaped and distracts from more productive projects are these so called social networks that I joined for the purpose of promoting my website. Every thing you read regarding site promotion includes social networks. The only people I seem to network with are other web site owners. How is that going to get steady and regular visitors?
Hi thanks for droping my blog, am here to drop my EC and reading some of your post. God bless.
Yes, they are counter productive if you are managing your time. However, if you are looking for piece of mind than that's another story!
I know the dilemma.you know it's making you late but you go on because it's only gonna take one more minute,one more minute...and ultimately it takes 10.
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