here's me completing the urgent tasks on my to-do list today:
- completed the recent weighted assessment analysis and keyed the marks into cockpit
- went for basketball club training to supervise the kiddos
- attended a meeting with my vice-principal as well as a lecturer from an external polytechnic. something about wanting to explore organic composting in our school
- messaged five parents about their children's misdemeanour - taking one another's wallet during Sci lessons for fun. Their Science teacher is upset
but what i really wanna do:
- set aside time to set my primary 6 preliminary science paper. the deadline is looming over me. i have 2.5 weeks left. sigh.
but here i am, posting this because my cowboy hat trumps all :)
When I first heard of Deep Work I put time on my calendar and then at that time thankfully the admins respected that. Didn't mean that I enjoyed the flow state that's supposed come that way. Just helped box out dumb meetings.
It's still elusive now that I don't have a calendar or admins buzzing around. Main thing is to put myself in places where work is the default activity. Then try to work on one thing at a time for an hour or more.
when things take longer than expected and you have to move on to something else, does it irk you that you can’t finish what you set out to accomplish?
A little, main thing is I can look back at a day and say I got something accomplished. Besides that I gotta limit scope because I'm interested in almost everything.
After a day like you described I'd say well done. With all of this I'm most impressed by your steady stacker posting! You're an anchor here for sure.
that’s a great perspective to thank. focus on the things i accomplish and give myself some grace
I basically just started taking a day off during the week to focus on whatever I feel like. That’s probably not an option for you though.
ur media empire, being one of them!
nope, I find it hard to take even an afternoon off. my latest challenge is setting the final year science paper. thank goodness that I’m starting to enjoy the thinking process involved
Set the timer for 90 minutes first thing tomorrow before the emails and wallet-gate drama start.