Today I have come home feeling a little disappointed because I have not completed all of the work that I planned to do. I had hoped to spend the morning completing illustrations for a Revolution Inc. mail shot and then the afternoon gathering research for the branding project I am leading, providing that by then the client had come into the office to pay the deposit for the branding. However, when I arrived in the office this morning, within an hour I had been asked to complete another task that wasn't in my job list. The job was to simply design five tables for a website and would only take me an hour, but I felt under pressure because I had allocated all of my time for the day to the other two tasks on my list.
I managed to complete these relatively quickly and was soon able to work on the mail shot again. However, after lunch, Adam then approached me and asked me he could use my laptop during a meeting in the middle of the afternoon. This was because a client was coming in that we started work for before Christmas and his Facebook page has been set up on my laptop. Of course I had to let Adam use my laptop, but this meant that I also ended up sitting in his meeting which lasted for an hour and a half - another hour and a half that I hadn't incorporated into my timetable. Unfortunately because of these two set backs I was able to create an outline of my illustration for the mail shot, and I was able to gather research for the branding project, but I still didn't complete the amount of work that i had hoped to complete by the end of the day. This will now have an effect on the rest of my week as I need to make up the two and a half hours that I lost today.
I was aware that I would have my own list of jobs, but that also other tasks may be passed on to me in between. However I have not been incorporating that into my day. Most days I will be aware of what work needs doing and I will be able to get on with what I have planned, but I think I need to start leaving some time in my day just in case this happens again. Although I have deadlines that I need to keep, my work load is not so hectic that I don't have time to spare, so from now on I am going to start allocating an hour or two every day of free time that I can use if I get asked to complete another task. If not then I can always use this time to complete my work if I had underestimated how long it would take me, or refine my work if I do get it finished. In addition, I could also spend this time looking for interesting articles that I could post on Revolution Inc.'s twitter as I know Adam likes to post 3 or 4 times a day and he doesn't always have time to find interesting things to post.
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