Where has my focus gone?
Just a short post because I have an incredibly busy day ahead of me. But, I’d like to know where my focus has gone. Does somebody have it? Can they please return it? I’ve looked everywhere: under the bed, in the couch cushions, all the closets, in the garage. It’s nowhere and I desperately need it back.
I remember being able to get into the zone in a nice quiet office. I remember coding away, finishing a module and looking up to find it was time to go home.
* sigh *
Now I’m lucky to get four hours strung together to just work. Even then, there are constant interruptions. Except at one in the morning. Then there are no interruptions. Heh.
I’m getting burned out working this way. An hour here, an hour there. Trying to get back into what I was doing and figure out where I left off. It’s hard, folks. Anyone who tells you that working from home is easy probably also has a bridge to sell you.
* sigh *
And the thing is, even when I have a Sunday with Ray home and I’m holed up in my bedroom office, I still have a hard time focusing. It seems that with the constant interruptions and scattered working hours I have lost my ability to focus. I can’t seem to get to that point where I’m thinking about the code and only the code, and progress feels incredibly slow.
So, please keep an eye out for me. My focus has to be around somewhere. If you see it, can you please let me know? I’ll keep looking.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I have had this focus problem too. Before I had my third child, I was freelancing fairly well. But now, even when I have a block of time, I often feel I can’t concentrate. I hate that!
July 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I’ve had that focus problem too! Even when I have a good block of time, sometimes I can’t turn off the mom in me or whatever else.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I feel you! I used to work almost 7 nights a week from 8pm-midnight… my girls went to bed at 6:30pm which gave me an hour and a half to eat dinner and do chores. Now with an infant who’s still awake at that time I’ve lost those good hours of work so I’m trying to scramble throughout the day/night to find at least one consecutive hour to work… but even if I find it I can never focus enough to really get things done. Oh how I wish I could afford a nanny!
I’ll keep my eyes open b/c maybe your focus is flying around here somewhere…