It's Monday and I broke my own rule this morning.

I woke up and knew that I had a hundred things to do today and so I just started doing them.  As a result, I've been chasing my tail all day.  I really feel like I've been unproductive.

Hindsight, being a wonderful beast, allows me to see how I could have saved myself a lot of time and effort today, simply by organising my day up front.  But instead I've jumped from item to item, double handling and working on similar activities at different times of the day.

I know that there is a famous line which reads "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."  But maybe it doesn't necessarily mean that if you want to go somewhere you should start running immediately, maybe it's better if you know where you're going first?

So, anyway, the end result for my day is that I felt rushed and harried throughout the day and don't feel as productive as I could have been.  I've been the perfect example today of "bad" busy as opposed to "good" busy.

It is such a temptation though, when things get really busy, to just dive in there and get started.  Taking the time to pause, take a deep breath and plan your day makes such a difference though.

Tomorrow will be a different day for me.  My regret today is that a bad Monday normally carries forward into the rest of the week.  So, I think that I'll make tomorrow my backup Monday and get my week planned then.