Shifting Gears
Yesterday, GEARS wrote about how his lab group seems to be gaining some momentum. This got me to thinking about how I’d recently had my momentum redirected temporarily and ways to handle it better in the future. I am not a person who likes to change what I’m doing very often. I find that it’s hard to redirect my attention to a new project, even if it’s one that I’ve worked on recently. Having a meeting first thing in the morning is like walking through quicksand for a while afterwards. This is a problem, though, as I’m usually working on 3-4 different projects at work; I have to spend a good chunk of my time interacting with other people on my teams to make sure we’re keeping appraised of each others work. However, a few weeks ago, I had a huge lurch. A project deadline was coming up and we…