Your butt in the chair!

# Chapter 234

And even with a detailed action plan the urgency of the urgent in life can still derail your best intentions. Things pop up like every 30 seconds in life and yes an injured person person qualifies as an emergency, not only urgent. But the vast majority of the every 30 seconds are not urgent, heck they are most often the result of us “taking a break” or some other planned distraction. One thing leads to another and it often seems to take very very little distraction to lead me anywhere from my focus that produces the 80% of important stuff in my life.

There are a few things we can do to reign in the distraction beast. Close the door. Set a timer. Put your butt in the chair and do the work! Closing the door reduces the ambient noise in the office or home and communicates to everyone that you are hard at work. Make sure you are! The timer will help you head off derailing segues. If you don’t use one regularly you might have to work up to a decent 45-55 minute work span. Most of the youngsters I try this with only have about a 5-10 minute attention span. Like I said, you might find that you have to work up to a decent block of time.

Nothing will ever work better than putting your butt in the chair and getting the work done. Nothing tops this action. At my stage in life I can often decide, that I am going to work until its done or when 5:00 pm arrives. Long multi-day tasks like tax preparation, work well with this approach.