The Think System

I have a very important project going on at work right now. So important that I can’t seem to make myself work on it. I spend so much time thinking about what I want to say and not a lot of time actually writing it down. It’s weird. I have work sessions scheduled with my subject matter experts and everything is going fine. I haven’t missed a single deadline and yet I feel like I’m not really doing anything. Does thinking about work count as work? I still enter it that way on my timesheet!!

Even as I am sitting here typing this out, part of me is thinking about PowerPoint slides and tone for the narrative that will go with them. I have another work session scheduled for next week and so far not a single word written for it. When it’s finally finished, everyone in the company is supposed to view it. And I am supposed to write up some talking points for the CEO who is supposed to make an introduction video for this training. My quest for perfection is rendering me speechless. I know I am too far in my head right now. That’s why I keep scheduling these work sessions. Deadlines are forcing me to keep actively plugging away at it.

To try and keep myself loose, I keep “walking away” from it and coming back to it several times throughout the day. In the past I have often found it useful to switch focus onto mundane things like laundry or paying bills, or whatever while noodling over some problem or another. So far no lightening bolts of inspiration. Maybe it’s time to try something else.