# Chapter 351

Finally putt my butt in the seat and started getting some tasks done. There simply is no way around work, you just have to go through it and one hour at a time get the stuff done. There is a lot of satisfaction when that happens, and so I don’t really get the delay and delay and procrastinate thing that I can do to myself over and over. Actually I am a more reprioritize the triage list than a delay guy, but I do have clients that are all delay and more delay type of procrastination. But regardless of where you fall on this scale or another scale, the work was getting pushed back further and further to a later date and you and I were not getting it done on schedule.

But the pressure to help out others with their overclocked schedules and responsibilities was still high today, and I hated to disappoint them, but I had to set myself up for some success and progress. Sooooo, I 1.warned them that I was not available to help, 2. stay focused and on task and 3. kept saying no throughout the day as more requests for help came in and 4. encouraged others to dial it back some and not bring so much stress and pressure to our collective table. At the end of the day others may have been somewhat frustrated with me but I made some headway on important pieces of work. It wasn’t a perfect day, but it was way better than I had been doing last week. It was a good start. Now to continue.