A donor emails you with a question regarding their gift and how it will be spent. Your response tomorrow is usually sufficient from a timing standpoint.
Your boss asks you about the progress of the design of an invitation for the special event. Sharing the latest version with him tomorrow is usually considered timely.
Your board chair calls and requests an updated campaign report be sent to her in advance of the upcoming meeting. Even if the meeting is tomorrow, sending her the report tomorrow morning would typically be viewed as prompt.
In most all situations and circumstances, our response tomorrow will work. It will be considered as timely.
Why, then, do so many of us regularly choose to derail and disrupt our current work flow to response immediately to requests throughout the day?
Our best work typically occurs when we can focus uninterruptedly for chunks of time. Our best responses to new requests typically emerge after we’ve had some time to mull them over, even to sleep on them.
Tomorrow is usually fast enough.
