Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Getting Organized
I came into this day with deep dread. It wasn't that anything unpleasant was on the horizon; I was just feeling overwhelmed. I finally got that monster update done and uploaded last night. What I had originally expected to get done in one or two days had stretched into a full week as one fix dominoed into another and another and another.

But getting done with something that had so consumed a week's worth of time and attention left me feeling a little lost. Sure, lots of things had piled up on me throughout the week, but what to do first? I just felt overwhelmed.

So I did none of them.

I've learned that the worst time for me to make good decisions is when I feel overwhelmed. So I took most of the day to simply sort through everything I needed to do and start prioritizing things again.

There are plenty of things on my to-do list that there more to satisfy my desire to have things orderly than because they are essential to meeting my goals. And without taking time to step away and refocus on what I was doing, guess which types of tasks would have exerted the greatest pull on me.

That's right, the compulsive orderliness ones. But I feel calmer already for having taken a good, hard look at what I need to do and taking control of it all again.

Sometimes, you just have to waste a little time to avoid wasting a lot of time.
Jeff