Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2006-03-20 08:51:13 - Graham Ellis
Have you noticed how I usually post "The Horse's Mouth" in the morning, whereas the most natural time of day for a diary - surely is the evening, logging an event or events of the day?
I rise early and that gives me an excellent few hours of fresh, concentration time to go through a whole series of jobs, sequentially, that need to be done. A chance to knock off ducks one by one, and to give deep thought to issues that need such without a series of interruptions.
From 8 O'Clock or so on a course morning, we're then into our busiest period - but still sequential - where we check that the fridge is full stocked, the loos cleaned, computers ready, coffee machine primed with fresh milk .... ready for ...
Come 9 O'clock (or come course delegates) and the sequential mode switches totally to a parallel processing system which I've learnt to handle, but it sure ain't anything like as productive. I don't expect of plan to get ANY substantive quotations, technical answers or the like done during the day - that's why you'll often get an "I'll answer overnight" acknowledgement of emails, or a promise to send detailed information by the start of the next working day if you phone.
Ten to Nine as I write. The lull before the storm of customers. I'm looking forward to that welcome storm, having checked off at least a few of my things on my "mustdo" list in the past 4 hours.