# Chapter 340

All I needed was some super focused hours and boom! I got it all done! The client letters I had been attempting to complete all week, got thrown to the front of the line, in a take-no-prisoners style attack. Turn off the phones, lock yourself in your idea space, lock out all notifications, refuse to answer all summons, block all interference, stay away from all grand children, forego all foods and drinks, just get the butt in the seat and get all the work done! Unlike this very moment, where I am trying to write these words while grandchild number 5 is loudly talking and having a ball, experiencing tea for the first time, having an exciting morning, which is just wrecking mine, but what do you do? Enjoy the boy of course, but when this becomes the pattern of the week, an intervention was required.

You have to do this as well, when life takes over your work, you have to find a way to stop everything and find a space where you can focus and think and get important things done, not just get run over by all the urgent things in your life. The urgent is relentless and honors no man or woman’s schedule or obligations. So you have to snatch quiet and space from the jaws of urgency which are ever knocking at your door for constant attention and investment from you. This will very similar to the triage of parenting where you have to resolve and move and deflect the constant barrage of noise, questions, disagreements, intentional picking at one another, arguments, fights and general chaos to find some zen, a place where you can think, parents have long escaped to the bathroom for these reasons! Find your space, lock it down, get some important work done, reenter the chaos of life without guilt.