One Thing, Then the Next

I’ll do this. Now the next thing. Ok. What’s going on with email… Gotta respond here. But I need this first…

Some days there’s no room for air. You dive in and just go. Bopping from one thing to the next with an intuitive sense of what the next most important thing is, you just do it.

It’s a reactive mode that seems to move things forward. And sometimes things truly do move forward.

But there’s a thin line. An extra text, email, call, message, or a passerby who says, “Hey, do you got a minute?” ...