Tuesday, June 29, 2004

They think it's all over ...

I finally knuckled down and finished the work on the new version of the sales spreadsheet. It now filters by market sector (when I figured out how to do radio buttons in visual basic properly), checks the authorization identity against the database and is generally tidied up and lovely. All that remains is to punt it to the sales director and her flunky for testing an approval. Woo hoo!

Why did I procrastinate on it for so long? I don't know really - a lot of the time when I am staring at the screen thinking of ways to do things I get distracted, either by genuine work (usually inane questions from users) or by something else that I persuade myself is a higher priority (blogging, hem, hem) and the train of thought is derailed.

I wonder how much work I could achieve if I worked to a hurry-up drill all of the time? I don't know - I think that I need the adrenaline rush of leaving things to the last minute and storming through them. If I have a lot of projects on the go, then I can set myself overlapping deadlines for them to up the panic factor a notch.

Anyway, if I made things look too easy then people wouldn't appreciate all of the hard work I actually do ...

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