Too Many Chunks

Work. Work. Work. Call. Work. Work. Call. Call. Work. Call. That’s how a day might look. As you move up in your work, it might be all synchronous work, where you’re sitting in a meeting or jumping on a call. In between, should those meetings have been “productive”, you’ll be left with homework that you’ll need to respond to. You’ll only be able to designate the time in between the calls to get that homework done, before a new call assigns more work. Sunrise, sunset.

My experiments with the tomato timer have been a game changer for me. Even now, as I write, I watch the time tick down on a very basic desktop timer. Tick. Tick. During this time, I only work on one task at a time. I avoid jumping around, I avoid Facebook (I’m definitely not perfect). I feel the itch all the time. Sometimes, the work in the instant seems loathsomely boring compared to the rainbows and butterflies that await me on my feed. When I stop to collect my thoughts mid sentence, I think I can just click on that link, or switch to that other tab, or go somewhere more exciting.

Nope. I’m stuck here. I’m stuck here until I finish this post. My “break” is to go and look for an free for reuse image for the post. It’s like the break of taking out the trash while working in a kitchen but enjoying being able to get outside for a moment in the fresh air.