WHAT PREVENTS YOU FROM DOING THE THINGS YOU WANT EVERY DAY
I have decided to get up at 5:20am for morning reading, get the airfreight confirmed with my boss then get back to customers with result certain, place 2 new orders, get the guidance for application of new packing material done and released to persons related, send quotation of airfreight for American for confirmation, get back to a customer on the MOQ that need further negotiation before I could confirm the new order, and finish my update in JIANSHU by 4pm. However I get none of them done since I am trapped in the middle of something else when I am trying to get tasks in my schedule settled or hinder by someone else or even myself. Here they are.
COMPROMISE WITH THE INSTINCT
It is dark and cold outside when it is time to get up, which further my excuse for some more minutes on bed. I set a timer for 30mins, and let the music play until it stops, then I will get out of bed. However, I find my self still wrapped in quilt one hour later, considering that it would be nice to have 10 mins more in bed.
GET HINDERED BY SOMETHING HAPPENED UNEXPECTED
I read all the emails and couldn't help calling God's name every time I find something demanded by my customers which is ridiculously beyond my expectation. One customers wants to call off the order which has been half done, one customer keeps making me provide something I have got him before, and one customer keeps silent on something I need urgently from him to move on with the plan.
YOU CAN NEVER DO WHAT YOU HATE EFFICIENTLY WELL
I hate the environment I am in, where I am busy while people around not doing what they need to do but keeping me busy with that kind of tasks which are not my business. We have quality control unwilling to provide test report of the products manufactured. And the warehouse keeper not picking up phone calls when someone contacts her for cargo receipt. I feel hopeless when things go against my will or the expectation of my customers. But I know that this negative feelings can bring me nothing but moody mind and lower efficiency at work.
SCHEDULE POSTPONED BY REACTION FROM OTHERS LAG BEHIND AND INFORMATION PENDING
The report wanting by my customer hasn't reached me from my QC department until late in the afternoon. The boss holding back his decision of airfreight approval and the pending ETD of a certain material needed for production from supplier delay my getting back to the customers as planned.
EAGER TO WIN A DEBATE BUT FORGET IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO GET THINGS SETTLE THEN MOVE ON
I said that it is not appropriate for a customer to calculate the measurement of cargo without pallet. But the customer keep telling me that their system may get things right itself without the data of pallet. And the customer always claims that I get something wrong when they keep making rules without taking the actual situation into consideration. It will be better if I just ask what they need instead of keep explaining why I did what I have done. Just get what they want and let it move ahead, and this is the most effective way of saving time and energy over a useless debate.
TIME WASTED BY THINGS DONE BUT NEEDING ADJUSTMENT LATER
I have confirmed time and place for pick up last night with an inspector, only to find that he need some adjustment when I am about to be off work.
I have written diary about the same things two weeks ago, wondering where the time goes. And it seems that it is still the issue fixed that steal my time and energy away. I would like to get the stubborn situations removed bit by bit from tomorrow.
I should have something in want clearly enough to make me strong enough to go against the instinct of idleness and tendency of putting things off. I would have something more meaningful and significant for self cultivation to focus on so as to make myself realize that I still get something else to rely on when things chaotic and damn try to get to me. I need to find something worthwhile which may keep me positively occupied when I am going to lose my patience and temper to something negative beyond my control.
Sometimes we are easy to get annoyed or restless just because we have nothing else better to care about and we think that what we have now, doom and gloom, is all about the story. It is my priority to find something else to concentrate on, leaving me no time for bad temper, negative feelings or complaint for anything, quarrels with anyone.
No matter what happens, let it passes you by. Catch what life throws at you unfriendly, deal with it, then drop it, leave it behind and move on.
