therealkfish

Sit down. Fire up the computer. Pull up a word document. Write three sentences. Use the need for a thesaurus as an excuse to get on the internet. Spend the next half hour checking Facebook and Twitter. Back to work. Reread the first three sentences, condense the first two into one and delete the third. Try and recapture the mindset from a half hour ago. Write five more sentences. Cell phone rings, pick it up, talk for 10 minutes. Ok, back to work. Reread the six sentences on the screen. Write two more.

It’s unfortunate that this seemingly hypothetical hour of “work” is a fairly accurate assessment of my time spent trying to get things accomplished. And the hypothetical didn’t even include the nonstop barrage of text messaging happening throughout the hour. Basically, I’m really fucking distracted all the time. No, I’ve never been diagnosed with ADD, but damn if I can’t seem to get anything done in the time I have to do it. I find it nearly impossible to keep my head in the game and handle something through to fruition without some type of external distraction getting in the way. There are just too many things, pulling too many ways, raping and pillaging my attention span until I’m not even sure what it is that I’m supposed to be doing anymore.

Here is my new initiative: No multitasking.

Banned: texting, the internet, social networks, phone calls, any other random shit that needs to be done, but isn’t the task at hand.

Not banned: Kicking ass at one thing at a time. Finishing that thing. Moving on to the next one.

I’ll let you know how it goes.