Thieves are stealing your work

# Chapter 350

You should never never ever read email before you get your work done, because email is just going to derail all your best work. Email is going to occupy the space between your ears that you need to focus on producing something great. I made that mistake this morning. I don’t often do that, but bad news is the most difficult to avoid and subject of the message let me know that it was going to be less than happy news, and so I read it and now I so wish I hadn’t because my knowledge of my coming rent hike is intruding on my mind like a hammer. It interferes with each sentence, all congruence of thought, and just will not stop interrupting my thought process! This is why I choose a path of minimal inputs prior to the early morning routines, because these inputs intrude and interject and will not stay in any form of box or container so that you can get important stuff completed!

So our rent is going up, what is unexpected about that? Not one single thing. But this is why you need to isolate and insulate your mornings from inputs, you can’t control how your thought processes grab ahold of concrete problems and try to begin resolving them. We sell our productive mornings to email and the news, and pay the price of a derailed day that gets little accomplished. I typically don’t read an email before early afternoon, where I have a block of time to think about it and answer because I so plan and hope to OHIO (only handle it once) that baby! Stop allowing these thieves to steal your best hours of the day.