Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Eager?
I went in for a couple of hours to train Mark and his office staff on how to make updates to the website. It's funny how two weeks ago I was really upset over turning things over. Today, I enjoyed being back in the role of a trainer and wished I could turn over more of the routine tasks.
I made sure I turned one of them over, once and for all, and felt good about it. And I actually feel good about the prospect of taking some of the pressure off of me of having the websites being entirely on my hands.
I'm eager to turn a lot of the work over and get moving in other directions. But am I really eager? Once I got home, I got some more done on one of the projects I needed to do, but I could have gotten more done.
I seem to have gotten way too interested in the upcoming NFL draft and spent a couple of hours of valuable time reading reports on potential draftees. Yeah, I've done some of that in past years, but usually not until the week before the draft (which is currently a month away).
One thing, though. I can't afford to let this become a regular practice. But I just couldn't seem to get myself going on more productive tasks once I got back from the office.
Considering I tend to put in seven days a week of working at least a few hours a day, I guess it's not too terrible for me to have one day in a week that I just have to get away from it. There are better ways of clearing my mind, though, than obsessing about the NFL draft.
It was a day of family things, too. I worked it out so I could take my wife and daughter out to lunch, drop them at a movie and pick them up after I was done at the office. And then, too, when we got home, one of my sons announced that a Marine recruiter was on his way there for a visit.
Ben didn't enlist yet, but it might not be all that bad for him to move ahead on his plans rather than continuing to slog through a job that leaves him feeling totally unchallenged for another six months before completing his plans to enlist. Sure, the prospect of him joining the armed forces is scary—especially in time of war—but you've got to admire him for his desire to pay a return to his country for the freedoms he has enjoyed.
As for me, tomorrow has no big blocks of time carved out of it like today did—at least none that I can anticipate. And with a day off (I'm considering that working only five hours today consitutes a day off?) from work, my head should be clear enough to get back into it tomorrow.
On to greater productivity—after a good night of sleep.
Jeff
I went in for a couple of hours to train Mark and his office staff on how to make updates to the website. It's funny how two weeks ago I was really upset over turning things over. Today, I enjoyed being back in the role of a trainer and wished I could turn over more of the routine tasks.
I made sure I turned one of them over, once and for all, and felt good about it. And I actually feel good about the prospect of taking some of the pressure off of me of having the websites being entirely on my hands.
I'm eager to turn a lot of the work over and get moving in other directions. But am I really eager? Once I got home, I got some more done on one of the projects I needed to do, but I could have gotten more done.
I seem to have gotten way too interested in the upcoming NFL draft and spent a couple of hours of valuable time reading reports on potential draftees. Yeah, I've done some of that in past years, but usually not until the week before the draft (which is currently a month away).
One thing, though. I can't afford to let this become a regular practice. But I just couldn't seem to get myself going on more productive tasks once I got back from the office.
Considering I tend to put in seven days a week of working at least a few hours a day, I guess it's not too terrible for me to have one day in a week that I just have to get away from it. There are better ways of clearing my mind, though, than obsessing about the NFL draft.
It was a day of family things, too. I worked it out so I could take my wife and daughter out to lunch, drop them at a movie and pick them up after I was done at the office. And then, too, when we got home, one of my sons announced that a Marine recruiter was on his way there for a visit.
Ben didn't enlist yet, but it might not be all that bad for him to move ahead on his plans rather than continuing to slog through a job that leaves him feeling totally unchallenged for another six months before completing his plans to enlist. Sure, the prospect of him joining the armed forces is scary—especially in time of war—but you've got to admire him for his desire to pay a return to his country for the freedoms he has enjoyed.
As for me, tomorrow has no big blocks of time carved out of it like today did—at least none that I can anticipate. And with a day off (I'm considering that working only five hours today consitutes a day off?) from work, my head should be clear enough to get back into it tomorrow.
On to greater productivity—after a good night of sleep.
Jeff
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