Another day goes by

I don’t have true self-confidence. Sometimes I swagger, sometimes I boast, but if someone questions my accomplishments I will either get angry or afraid. Or both. Usually I question my own accomplishments.

I am not sure how I am getting so little done these past two days. I mean, I have had pretty good days where I haven’t had many interruptions, I kept a good pace, and I got pretty much nowhere without hitting any roadblocks. I come in, run my morning reports and go to the daily meeting, follow up on a few e-mails, clear out some expedites, go to shipping, and come back to follow up on some earlier e-mails, phone calls, expedites, or other errata.

I do not get around to reviewing the past due orders for our key customer that my boss asked me to take responsibility for. I do not do anything to develop any of the different projects I have promised different people, generally including the operations manager of some facility somewhere.

And another day goes by.