Had a training day earlier this week. Great class, interesting topic, instructor was pretty good, and my classmates were interesting and engaging. I was fully engaged through the morning.

And then lunch hit. Eating food didn’t kill me. It was seeing the email backlog of things piling up, that I was otherwise ignoring by being in class. Lunch hour wasn’t nearly long enough to deal with them all, so I went back to class mentally prioritizing and preparing responses to the growing pile.

Not sure how to handle that well. That email didn’t interrupt me physically didn’t save the backlog of tasks from interrupting me mentally.

Worst part? The afternoon’s topic was on listening.