Doing Work as It Shows Up?

Many people let themselves get sucked into the second activity, dealing with unplanned and unexpected things that show up much too easily. It's easy to get seduced into busy and urgent mode when you have a lot of unprocessed and relatively out of control work on your desk,. In fact, much of our life and work does just show up in the moment, and it often becomes the priority when it does. The constant sacrifices of not doing the work you have defined on your lists can be tolerated only if you know what you're not doing. That requires regular processing of your intree, defining your work and consistent review of all your predetermined work.