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I knocked off for the day

Clive Griffiths
Clive Griffiths
— 1 min read

When people let you down it's frustrating.
When you let yourself down it's even more frustrating.

Yesterday was a good day.
I wrote down my four goals.

By lunchtime these were done - I knocked off for the day.

I could easily have drifted into more work, or worse still administrivia, social scrolling, or other non-productive work.

Instead my 15-year-old grandson and I caught a bus to a favourite cafe in one of the villages here. We had a great chat about life, while drinking coffee and eating cake. He was delighted with his Jaffa-cake-based chocolate brownie.

The point is I know we'll only get a limited number of conversations between now and when I'm gone. And while the time feels all the more valuable because of that ... there's also something else.

I never skived time off in all the jobs I had ... that would have been letting others down.

But staying at my desk today would have been a different way of letting myself down - because I'd have been choosing more work over what actually matters.

And if I were sitting here now, not having taken that time out ... that would be really frustrating.

What would you have done?

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