Short Attention Span

After being on vacation for a week, I returned to work and I was sorting through my email. Here was something that I noticed about myself. See if you can relate to this and your Character.

If there was a long or detailed explanation in an email I would skip that email and move on to the next one, looking for short requests or replies. In my mind, my thought was, "Oh, I will come back to that one, it is too difficult to work through." But, as I reviewed my email again, those same emails were left untended to.
My thinking continues along this same line of procrastination. If I have an hour of dedicated quiet time then I will address all those emails, if I have four hours of solid time then I will be able to focus on that project.  I just...fill in the blank.

What ends up happening is that I don't get started or I make a false start only to be overwhelmed by the enormity of the project or complexity of the task. So the email is left unopened or undone.

What is the Character Matter?
I am vacillating if the issue is thoroughness or endurance. I am tending towards thoroughness because of the opposite Character issue is incompleteness.

Sometimes it is easiest to see a Character Matter in light of its opposite. Similarly, it is easier to see what I don't want to be like rather than what I do want to be like in someone else.

How does Character Matter?
This Character matters when activities require much thought work and will require sustained effort to accomplish it. This Character matters when the end result is given to my customer and rather than having a thrown together project at the last minute my work demonstrates that my ideas have matured and developed through careful planning and solid logic.

I ask myself and I ask you the same question, what are you putting off till later that could be started today? What could be reviewed and an action plan could be drafted that you have been avoiding?

I have my list, do you have yours?