Productivity

It always amazes me how much I can get done when I unplug my phone, IM and e-mail.  I sat down at Starbucks without internet connectivity and cranked through a long list of things that had to be done that I’d had to push to the back burner for weeks.  I’m horrible at dealing with the tyranny of the urgent.  I don’t have the self control to avoid reading new e-mails as they come in, which pulls me down a nasty spiral of non-productivity.  The sad thing is what a feeling of satisfaction I achieve when I’m able to empty my e-mail box from 200 to 10.  That feeling is quickly quelled as soon as I reconnect and find it fills right back up as people reply to everything I just sent out from those original 200.