Maybe I was not clear in my explanation. It has to do with the things you “have to do” VS the things you “want to do”. When I first did this process of monitoring where do my time and energy go, I realized that I was spending a lot of time doing a lot of things that I “had to do” and very little time on the things I really “wanted to do”. As in your example, if I understand it correctly, transcribing NLP in Business is a task that you want to do because it’ll serve your greater purpose of learning how to do an intro seminar. But you find yourself interrupted often, drowning in other tasks that you need to attend to which you don’t really want to do, but they are there, and you feel you need to attend to those because you have to. If you read my answer to Cameron’s question above, this is also draining the energy, pulling the mind in many different directions, and robbing yourself of energy and focus. For example if you say, 15 hours/week dedicated to ….. Whatever …then these are hours in which you don’t want to think or do anything else. If you spend one hour of transcribing/day, but in that hour you’re interrupted 10 times….the energy drainage because of the interruptions with things that you did not plan for (thus you did not “want” to do), is massive and at the end you’ll end up more tired and drained than before you started. I hope this makes sense.
