Productivity!

 

Wow! This morning I had such an epiphany! I have been such a struggle-puss with blog-writing for such a long time - I fail to do any in the evenings, I fail to do any on the weekends, and generally I don't even do any in my holidays. It has frustrated me, as I love my blog and want to really make it my memoirs so-to-speak, and something for my kids to remember me by when I am gone.

So this morning I met with one of my colleagues for a breakfast meeting. Me being me, I arrived an hour early, and planned to use this time to chill, catch up on emails, and just enjoy the ambience. My colleague being him, he was 15 minutes late, so I had a lot of time to myself. After getting set-up with my laptop and dealing with an email or two, I opened my blog, and decided to finish off a draft post. I did it easy, and then did another, and then another, and was amazed at how prolific I was being, and how well the words were coming to me.

It is not the first time that I have noticed that I can be so productive, when I eliminate other distractions. In the office my productivity is maddening. I flit from task to task, generally with half a dozen or more happening at once. I do get there, but OMG it is so disorganised and chaotic. You might think that in a café environment, distractions would be the order of the day, but I am able to put it all to the side and just focus. Possibly because I can't get up and do other things and also because there is not enough space to spread out and get other bits of work info out and into my thinking. In any event, whatever the reason, this morning I smashed out the blog posts, and I was thrilled about it!

Of course, for this experimental result to be turned into scientific dogma, the results need to be repeatable. So I am going to try this again, and soon. I don't mind Essen, but the owner does have a chip on his shoulder. That may be unfair, and it was quiet, which probably helped. So I may go back, but in my mind, there are likely better places to try. I am keen to give this experiment another go soon. Watch this space...