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January 11, 2006
Morning productivity
Categories: Personal
I'm a morning person. If I go to bed at a sufficent hour and get the recomended 8 hours sleep, then I'm all about getting up early and getting things done.
I tried to do that today; I went to bed by 10:30 and was up at 6:30 or so, showered and out the door by 8:00. I was in the office before the main office even opened and feeling good about knocking out a lot of work before class at 2:00.
My general routine is to first check my email, beginning with my school account. This morning, I had eight emails from advisees with assorted questions about courses, transfers, and others things that adivsees have questions about. Here, I made my first mistake. I did NOT follow the GTD "two-minute rule" and responsed to all the emails before I did anything else. This took awhile and sapped my momentum. As a new professor, I had to look a lot of stuff up in order to answer the questions my advisees had. (My advisees could have looked the stuff up as well, but that's not such a big deal. Advising is part of my job). So those eight emails took almost an hour. Worse, they sapped my valuable morning energy that should have been used for reading and writing. Finding out the answers to my advisee questions could easily have been done this afternoon, when my energy had shifted a bit. Now, it's almost 10:00 and I've gotten no reading or writing done and have all sorts of other stuff cluttering my mind.
Some of that stuff on my mind is my student evaluations, which I received this morning. That, however, is another entry.
Posted by Nakia at January 11, 2006 09:36 AM