Everyone has a list of things that we know we should do or have to do that drain energy.
You have to schedule an appointment with your doctor. You have read a long (boring) report. You have to file your expense reports (from last fall) and also do some hard strategic thinking. You have to think harder about what will move your career forward and then do that.
But these are exactly the things which are easy to put off because they often don’t seem urgent and, candidly, it’s hard to get up the motivation to approach them.
