In this Chapter, Allen tries to help us decide what to do at the current moment. He had the theory of trusting in our intuition and just to do what we believe that right action is. However, if we are really bewildered, Allen gives us suggestions that we think about if we are in the right context, if we have enough time, if we are really tired, and what our priority looks like. These four criteria help us make good decisions, instead of going to the loudest one.
Allen also makes the point that, there are generally three types of work, do the work we have defined, do the work we have not defined, and do the work to define what we should do. We could be caught by unexpected urgent stuff to deal with, or we are just not doing the work we are supposed to do. That's okay. However, the problem is that we would not be able to focus if we don't know all the work that needs to done, when. Undefined work distracts us from concentrating on the current issues.
~~Larry
I agree. It's definitely easy to get caught up in work that comes up unexpectedly. When I worked in accounting, this happened often. It's important, as Allen mentions, to also do predefined work and to make time to define work.
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