intention
You give yo best hours to yo own kine work
@morningmatatu Narrated by Nina Good 2:02 24 shots
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You stay sharp right now. For real, you stay mo sharp than you goin be at three dis aftanoon, and dis window stay open fo like couple hours. Da room stay quiet in dat way only get early in da morning. Nobody wen ask you fo notting yet. Dat not one small ting, and dey goin take em from you if notting change.
Dat certain blue befo da sun really clear da buildings. One pen cap stay someplace he no should stay. Water in da pipes up top as somebody upstairs stay starting dea day. Da screen still dark, which stay da last moment befo he no stay dat way anymo.
You been giving dese hours to everybody else's priorities and taking da leftovers fo yo own kine. Da ting happen slow, not cuz you wen decide um. Dat's why nevah feel like one choice you wen make. Da reason he stack up is simple math: yo best attention stay one fixed amount every day, and every hour of um you spend on somebody else's urgent kine ting, dat's one hour yo own work get in one worse form, and dat come at da cost of exactly da projects you would say matta most if anybody wen ask you straight up.
Look what dat availability really costing you. Being reachable first ting feel like generosity and look like reliability, but no moa, he stay avoidance wearing one helpful face, cuz answering somebody else always easier than facing yo own unfinished kine ting. Da peopo who make tings no get mo hours than you. Dey get da same hours, jus different order, and dat ordering stay da whole technique. Notting else about um clever.
So da first clear hour today go to yo own work, befo da inbox, befo any message thread, befo anyting wit somebody else's name attached. One hour. Da rest of da day can have all of you, and he goin get one betta version.
Da messages still goin stay dea at ten, and none of dem goin suffer none. Yo own ting goin move forward, which stay mo than what happened all last week. One rearranged hour, and da whole day change shape.