How do you protect time for real work when everything feels urgent? I came into work today with a clear plan and still ended up spending most of the day reacting instead of progressing. Messages, questions, small fires. By the time it was quiet, my energy was gone.

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I set a reminder to check my email and Slack messages 4 times a day. I keep them closed outside of those checks. If I kept them open, the nonstop notifications would keep me too distracted to get anything done.

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You have to roll with it and make the time up later. If you can’t due to hourly limit for example then let your manager know.

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There are days when I've just had to accept that my plans are pretty much in tatters. There's always the possibility that some unforeseen event will derail things, so I try not to get too rattled by it. I can relate to that situation where it feels like the energy for the day just evaporated, but all anyone can do is try to plod along and get done what can get done.

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