Following on from the previous blog about things being hard from yesterday, it's interesting how the strategies that we use when things are difficult to stop us from doing the things that really matter.
One of the things that I have is to hide in the emails.
I've developed strategies and systems in my practice so that emails don't take up a lot of my life, but when I'm tired or when I'm not sharp enough, I find myself just hiding in the emails.
Just continually opening emails to see what comes in next.
This pretends to be pseudo-productive, but in actual fact it's just hiding from what you should be doing, which is moving the needle as much as you can in a positive direction.
This is allowing the emails to drive your work instead of you driving the work using the emails to communicate.
Everybody knows that the best thing to do is to answer emails in a specific time, once a week, twice a week, even daily, and then leave them.
There was a world before we had these; there was a world where you had to wait for a letter to come to direct you on what to do.
It's only going to get faster still, which means the ability to hide in things which aren't that important will get greater and greater, and our focus and discipline required to avoid it will be more important, not less.
Blog Post Number - 4720
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