Is your focus purely on the task at hand, above all else?

The absent-minded professor is one of those familiar, stereotyped fictional characters whose academic brilliance is undermined by forgetfulness, blunders, and/or obliviousness to surroundings.

Separate and apart from carrying out responsibilities and obligations where I need to be on top of my game, I am often under the influence of absent-mindedness in my capacity of Indie author.

Secluded in my office and sitting at my desk in readiness to write, absent-mindedness exerts its influence through obliviousness:

I’ve either forgotten to turn on the oven, or have left something in there too long.

Enveloped in thought, the constraints of time elude me.

On the road, behind the wheel, wayward thoughts pertaining to character dialogue or plot twists intrude. Of course, I force these distractions to take a back seat while I’m driving.

While pushing a shopping cart in the supermarket, absent-mindedness navigates, while I’m lost in thought.

Thus far, the influence of absent-mindedness has not manifested itself in forgetfulness or blunders. I justify my obliviousness as a means of focusing on writing without becoming easily distracted.

*Since creative endeavors are cerebral undertakings which continue to incubate and maturate wherever we may be, absent-mindedness enables our ideas to flourish.

It goes without saying—do not disturb!

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