Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

One of the greater challenges is to continue what was started on the other side of an event.

We have the best intentions. Let’s work on topic A. Topic A is important. Topic A deserves all our attention. Here we go! Topic A is it.

Boom! Something happens. Sometimes it is merely going home, eating, sleeping, eating, and coming back to the office. A small canyon or event. Sometimes it is bigger. The weekend! Lots of activities and fun and all that. Monday morning comes: what were we doing? Something about an A or B or something? A bigger canyon or event.

Sometimes it is an event. “Hey, look at the news. See what happened? This changes our industry completely. Let’s react. NOW!” A even bigger canyon. A week or month later, “What was that Topic that was so important?”

Whatever it is and however large it is, there is a canyon, a gap, time or event or anything. We are on the other side. What was it that we were doing back on the first side?

Something derailed our best intentions and best efforts. How can we return to topic A? Should we return to topic A? What was topic A? Sigh.

Sometimes we just lose track of what we were doing. We can do better.