I wonder if there's a way to do this when one owns a store. Interruption is in the soul of my business (even though I'm completely by appointment now), and I'm open 6 days a week. I try to go in an hour or more early, but even then, it doesn't always work: Tomorrow I teach a knitting lesson in that time period. 

When we go to the beach each year, I work on my writing. While everyone else drinks and goofs off, I sit in our room and write. I get bored when I goof off, and my eyes itch when I drink. 

I'm always astonished at the coherent thoughts I have during those days. Hours on end, just to be able to think! 

I was going to come to writing Wednesday for the first time today, to see if it would be helpful, but that wasn't happening. Which is actually a good thing. I had customers. 

All of that said, I'm lost whenever I don't use a list or have my long- and short-term goals mapped out. Today I didn't use a list. My day was a blur of incoherence.

I'm guessing that a list helps perhaps even more when you don't have blocks of time. It allows you to come back into focus and to get back quickly to what you were doing before the interruption. When you're interrupted, your task goes out of working memory and turns to what the interruption was. The list allows you to jump back to where you were before the interruption. 

Why do you think having another person for the sprint is essential? I wonder if extroverts need a person there to do better, and introverts need to be alone to do better--or if there's a mix. Or if it creates accountability, which is good for us all.

This calls for an experiment! 

I think it's great. I had fun despite my grumpy looking face in that photo! I think I worked at least 10% harder because I was sharing my screen.

So is it going to become a thing?

Donovan Rittenbach said 8 hours ago:

So is it going to become a thing?

 

Yes come join the party 😂