Trying to focus within the noise

I have always been easily distracted, I know this about myself, even if it’s not something I ever really wanted to admit publicly. There, it’s out there now and I am not ashamed one little bit…

My life is certainly not a failure, both my personal and professional lives have regrets, as all our ours do, but I am positive about where I am today. I have made mistakes and people have made mistakes around me and even with me. Thats life I am afraid and we learn from our mistakes only if we let ourselves.

Now I certainly hope I am not preaching, but I’ve been guilty of failing to plan properly and cliché’s about planning to fail do not really help. I’ve pretty much always gone through my days reacting and making decisions as I went. I guess I make pretty good decisions as I cannot look at myself as a failure. I have done pretty well. Now let’s not get carried away here, I’m not saying I couldn’t have done better or achieved more, possibly, but who really knows and who really cares? The past is back there, where it belongs and I have no desire to go back. Mostly because it would be pointless and impossible. We tease ourselves with notions of time machines and making different choices.

So, what’s the point of this blog?

Well far from being completed, I started making some changes in the way I work some time ago that was conscious and considered. I started to give myself time to plan. A regular time to reflect on today and then look forward to tomorrow. I close myself off, a set time every day. I check I’ve done my work for today and if not I establish why not. I then make sure my email inbox is empty (every day), I will write about that another day. I look at what I need to achieve tomorrow and see what is possible in my diary. It’s clear that I cannot get everything done every day, no-one can manage than, but I can control my own intent and make my own decisions about my objectives and make sure I am prepared to work on them.

I won’t lie, it’s a work in progress and one that has it’s pitfalls and hurdles but I am able to better control my own time and less inclined to suffer other peoples poor control.

So it’s time for me to sign off now to prepare for tomorrow…

See you soon.

P.S. The touch typing is coming on now…