An epiphany

I've had an epiphany of sorts.  It's not necessarily the being distracted that's my major problem concerning getting projects done on time, although that can cause damage.  I believe that the main problem is not sticking to a timetable.  In many cases, I don't have a timetable.  I'm not referring to when a project is actually due, but instead a timetable for each of the components (i.e. tasks) of the entire project.  Not only do I need to set reminders for each part in Win-Organizer, I need to do the same thing in my Outlook Calendar, creating one for the assigned time period for that task, so that I can actually see the time lines in front of me.  If I have more than one project that I'm working on at one time, I can also see the effect of trying to work on the two at the same time.

I think that using the pomodoro periods that I have set up will help to cut down on losing focus to something other than actual tasks/projects.  Since the break notification is popping up every 25 minutes, that's an indication to me of where my focus should be/should have been.  This is good since it seems that I can't get the various blocking software to work here.  One of them mention on their web site that Windows 7 now does a lot of what their app does (meaning no updates on their end), so I should check into that as well.

I know that why I do this, I just wish that I didn't do it

I got wrapped up in creating, and then updating, a load list from my old SplashID data.  When I moved everything over from my old phone to my new one, that data file did not move over.  I've been trying to get Splash to dump the contents for over a year, so that I can load them into another app.  Now, with less than two weeks left before I had to send the old one off, it was either get it downloaded or type each into the other app one by one.  This became a big deal today because I needed to look up a password, and that triggered the events that eventually had me editing a list that was created last year that was sitting on my old phone.  Once I got started, I of course found it very difficult to pull away.  I really hate that I obsess over things.  Most of my morning has been spent working on something non-work related.