John was writing a book by the sea. The book was a neat sheaf of papers piled one on top of the other at the moment.
All of a sudden, a gust of wind blew and John started scrambling to get put the papers back. But, as he did so, another gust blew and more papers flew.. and before he knew it, he had been fighting for 15 minutes to keep the order of sheets in tact.
And that’s when he realized that he could have saved his time and avoided frustration if he had only shut the window the first time and put a weight on top of the sheets.
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Life is such that we always have interruptions that throw us of. It pays to plan and organize so we are fighting what we need to do vs fighting meaningless interruptions.
A Learning a Day 