When people let you down it's frustrating. When you let yourself down it's even more frustrating.

When people let you down it's frustrating.
When you let yourself down it's even more frustrating.

Yesterday was a good day.
I wrote down my four goals.

By lunchtime these were done - I knocked off for the day.

I could easily have drifted into more work, or worse still administrivia, social scrolling, or other non-productive work.

Instead my 15-year-old grandson and I caught a bus to a favourite cafe in one of the villages here. We had a great chat about life, while drinking coffee and eating cake. He was delighted with his Jaffa-cake-based chocolate brownie.

The point is I know we'll only get a limited number of conversations between now and when I'm gone. And while the time feels all the more valuable because of that ... there's also something else.

I never skived time off in all the jobs I had ... that would have been letting others down.

But staying at my desk today would have been a different way of letting myself down - because I'd have been choosing more work over what actually matters.

And if I were sitting here now, not having taken that time out ... that would be really frustrating.

What would you have done?