Busywork
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Tagged busywork, mac : This is one boring post.
Two days ago, I had moved a bunch of busywork tasks to the following day because I thought we were taking the boat out. The clouds didn't clear up until too late in the afternoon for boating, so we didn't boat after all. Because there was nothing cluttering my Things 3 list, I picked one topic and whooped its ass (estimated taxes for 2024 and 2025). By focusing, I realized I wasn't fully fillling up the marginal tax bracket I had targeted and needed to take an additional distribution from my IRA to fulfill our plan. Don't know if I would have gotten around to that if not for the super focused day, especially if I end up going to Hattiesburg for Christmas.
Happily, the next day was bright and sunny all day and we were able to get our boating fix in. That's good for the motors and for us.
Unfortunately, today is the day I'm doing all those little piddly busy work items. Those aren't quite as fulfilling as the deep work.
We just can't have these kinds of "what I did today" posts if we really launch a blog or website.