Attention competition

# Chapter 346

I almost fell down the rabbit hole a few minutes ago instead of writing this important document! It is so easy to do. I have been trying to get a key software program to sync up properly these last few days as we have a long travel trip coming up. So I just wanted to check one tiny thing before writing this, just make sure one small process was working in the background before starting this ground breaking epic, when I noticed that I am not getting credit for the appropriate level of this software program that I have purchased - they have me listed as a personal account when in fact I have paid for a business account! And that led to another thing which led me to yet another setting and . . . you get the picture.

Just a small distraction or a small segue into a multitasking wish or a notification or a text message or a million other attention-competing intrusions and bang, you are off track of your systems and productivity patterns that have brought you to the place you are today. Its the ones that “this will only take 10 seconds to fix” that are my doom and temptations, that I find almost impossible to resist but you may likely have others that are your Turkish Delight. The temptation and distraction is not the point here, getting back on track is the point here. What do you have in place to point you back to those important priorities, not the urgent ones, but the daily get it done important ones? You can do this, you can choose the important over the urgent and you will win!