In Two Weeks from Now

I hate being busy. Working with the urgent, with people depending on me. Waiting on me. 

I slip back into it from time to time. Sometimes because of me, sometimes because of external factors. Some people seem busy all the time though; they never have enough time to properly read and respond to an email, never enough time to reflect or plan or at least to make sure they are busy over the right thing. 

When I find myself stuck in busy, I set aside one hour on where I just focus on my calendar in two weeks from now. What deliverables do I have that week? What commitments to my family? To my team? What do I need to prepare? Who do I need to talk to?

Drafting up this plan is a great feeling – stepping out from the busy if just for one hour. Sure, it won’t help me today, but in two weeks from now it will make all the difference.

What do you do to break that busy loop and making sure you focus on the important, not the urgent?