Inspiration allegory
I woke up just before 3 am after a really good five hours sleep, thinking about Tolkien's short story "Leaf by Niggle".
If you haven't read it, The story seems to be inspired by Dante's Inferno.
This led me to search for a solution to the problem of how to finish a main project, whilst still accomplishing those smaller projects appear each day to elbow their way in and a delay completion of the larger project, is simply not to impose a deadline.
Don't worry, as long as some small progress can be made each week on the larger project, it will eventually be completed.
This was brought home to me as a young designer when my MD asked me the question – "How do you feed the cow whilst the grass grows?"
Anyway, to finish, as a side issue, I must get this short story off my chest, so that I can get back to sleep.
Two airmen crash landed in a jungle and had lost communication.
They knew it would take many days to reach civilisation, and after walking for one day they couldn't decide who should make a meal.
They drew straws. At the end of the meal, which was very good, it was agreed that the cook should carry on until he prepared a bad meal, upon which is duties would be passed to his companion.
After five days of superb cooking from the fruits of the forest, the cook decided he had had enough.
He went to a stream, dug his hands into the mud, and fashioned some mud rissoles.
He felt very pleased with himself at the prospect of not having to cook anymore, and as they started eating, his companion exclaimed as he spat out a mouthful of mud.
These rissoles are made from mud!
– but they are exceedingly well cooked.
