Get Thee Behind Me Email

Well, this morning was a resounding success of how not to apply Critical Focus Time!

I got thrown off course by my son waking me early, feeling unwell, and so, not going to school. This resulted in my being at my computer at 6.36 a.m. thinking “oh well, this is earlier than I intended to start so no harm in taking a little look at my emails”.

Which led to my watching another about the List Control launch
which led to my trying to find out Frank Kern’s birthday
which led to my checking out the various affilaite bonuses on offer
which led to my reading a post in the Warrior forum about a possible (but seemingly unfounded) security problem with the list control software that went on and on for yonks and contained the usual slew of misinformation and conspiracy theory that seems to attend most big launches these days
which led to my doing another search in Google which resulted in my reading a load of IM gossip about certain “gurus”
which led to my feeling vindicated about certain times in my internet marketing history where I felt well and truly “ripped off”
which led to my feeling pleased with myself about my choice of Ed as a mentor
and then . . .

. . . the phone rang

which led to my coaching a friend to stop trying to work everything out and just take some action
which led to me returning to my desk and briefly getting back on track as I wrote my action list for the day.

But then I glanced up and saw a new email

which led to my going to Hayhouse to listen to Michael Neill’s latest recording and, whilst listening to that,
I was wondering if Ed had posted anything new on the mentoring site so went there to look
and then remembered something I heard earlier about Stompernet and so went there
and then noticed that Michael was saying the exact same thing that I’d said ealier to my friend so
went off on a coaching tangent
and checked out Steve Hardison’s site
and then one of his client’s sites
and then I noticed an email from my friend saying she was back and how helpful our chat had been to get her out of the house and how she was going great guns now so
I just had to ring her to tell her Michael Neill’s recording was very appropriate and would she like me to forward it to her,
which I did.

And whilst doing that I noticed Ed had emailed about Frank’s latest video.

It was now 12:17 – almost 6 hours since I first sat down at the computer and I was back where I started.

UNBELIEVABLE – 6 H O U R S!

I would have guessed I’d been faffing around for 2 hours at most, which would have been bad enough – but 6 HOURS!!!!!!

The good news is, it was such a shock I made a new commitment to never doing that again! Six hours will be my record for Internet Trawling Diversionary Tactics.

Putting “My money where my mouth is” I took the coaching I’d given to my friend to heart and applied it to myself.

After I’d showered (yes, I was still languishing around in a dressing gown) I grabbed pen and paper and took myself off to a local cafe to do my first CFT block of the day – writing this post.

Note to Self – Do Not Open Email until after you’ve done your CFT!

I shall be interested to see how that pans out . . .

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