I cancel all meetings to protect time for the handover that is 28 days overdue. Instead of 20 business days, I have 3 days to do this. I wasn’t procrastinating. I wasn’t slacking. I was simply too busy with the old job that took up 11 hour days.
Does it matter? Six months from now, everyone (including me) would have forgotten the difficulties of doing two jobs, and I’ll be measured on outputs. And thus, I must focus on the urgent and important. I must step away from the not urgent and not important.
How do I categorize between the two? The constraint is always time and people. Nothing else matters.