Half Day

Today is a half day. I leave at noon. It's 12/24 so I suppose tonight is Christmas eve. Needless to say, work is going to drag along today. I don't think we're taking any new orders. We're just shipping out stuff from yesterday. (20 truck loads?) So we have a very meager stack of invoices, purchase orders, and delivery tickets to process and get out to the customer. It is very unlikely that I will take any kind of payment in today. I think there will come a point before 12:00 where we will resort to doing work that doesn't need to be done... or just doing nothing. I like that option better.

When I try to get stuff done ahead of schedule in most situations I find myself having incomplete information. Putting something off is not procrastination. That's such a dirty word! Putting something off allows time to gather perfect information on the project. In the long run it should create LESS work for you.

Like back in college... I wouldn't start a homework assignment until enough time had passed for the assignment to be revised. Some go-getter would always find a flaw in the teacher's instructions, or the teacher would make some correction or give you a little advice. I prefer to begin any work with all the intel I will need at every stage of the project.

Better to start off knowing everything you need to know than to find out at the end that you didn't know enough.

Or to put it in bonmot/bumper sticker format: "Figure it out now, cause you'll need to know it all later." Was that too generic? Maybe it was just pithy. Yeah... pithy.

Ooo.. I think I have some work to do.