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What do you do when the window of opportunity to do your two-hour task becomes 30 minutes?

This seems to happen to me on a regular basis, when I have fastidiously put time aside to do ‘deep work’ or a special project and then it’s gobbled up by some other immediate task and I’m left with the dregs of a session.

It happened to me again this week as I was trying to write a lecture (for the same night) and I had mistakenly put the task slot at the end of the work session which of course vanished and evaporated for various reasons.

I was sat there with 30 minutes to rearrange and adjust the slides to give the lecture again and, of course, managed to fit it into the space.

Phone switched to silent, locked in a room, concentrating hard and working to a deadline.

It’s not great to do this time and time again and it’s not great to do it for everything but sometimes, when the slot shrinks, it shows you that the slot was too long to start with and you manage to achieve more in the two hours than you ever would have done on the single task.

Blog Post Number: 1884