Open the Damn Editor

We all have days when it is pretty hard to get stuff done.... email, meetings, phone calls, more email, some im'ing, and some more email just for good taste and the next thing you know it's time to go home. In short, it's a whole lot easier to be busy than productive.

When I notice this happening, I do one simple thing... I open up my damn editor. I am a software engineer, so the text editor is my medium for creation. A poet's "editor" would be some pen and paper, an artist's a canvas and some paint, and a sculptor's a lump of raw clay. 

Opening up the editor isn't the entire battle, but if you don't open it, you will never get shit done.