Like many of us I need more hours
every day… and a few more days in a week wouldn’t hurt either. Somehow I don’t
think the days are going to get longer. With my luck those extra days wouldn’t
be weekend days and then everyone would just be mad at me for having to work
more days between breaks. I probably wouldn’t win.
The only solution left is doing more
than one thing at a time, I believe that that productive and busy people call
that multi-tasking; I call it a desperate act of the seriously overburdened. I type
while I juggle phone calls, read while I cook, and return emails from my smart
phone while I move from room to room. I don’t have time to sit in one place for
very long being idle.
While I adore working from a home
office and never having to deal with a messy commute, I also envy those folks
who have on-site office hours away from casual phone calls, door-to-door solicitors,
and home/family chores. I am fairly disciplined and manage to meet my
deadlines, but sometimes it is a struggle to get the respect of others for my
time. I already let MOST phone calls go to voicemail and explain to others that
I am on deadline and can’t speak…
The truth is that life gets in the
way of schedules. Urgent phone calls, unexpected visitors, last minute
assignments and our own sometimes inability to concentrate will force us to
adjust everything we had planned. There are a few proverbs and other sayings
with a similar message, but my personal favorite is from Michael Chabon, “Man makes plans . . . and G-d laughs.”
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