Why it’s easy to lose motivation

I had just a few goals for today:

Goal #1: Contact the municipal radio station and schedule a time for our show.
Outcome: I knocked on the door of the station. I came back and knocked again. Then I found the obstetrician from Huaripampa (Tsutsuy’s counterpart) and when I told her what I was doing she said, “But people don’t listen to that station. Dr. Chavez will be back this afternoon and we can ask him what station the Health Center was going to work with. Meet me there at 6:00pm.”
I go to the Health Center at 6 o’clock, wait until 6:40pm, and then had a chat with some health personnel and found out that she had left two hours ago. Super. Goal #1 – incomplete.

Goal #2: Talk to the professors at the institute to initiate a group of students with the objective of them sharing their expertise with elementary schools by starting school gardens, etc.
Outcome: Oh, sorry, the director is in Huaraz. Can you come back to tomorrow? Goal #2 – incomplete.

Goal #3: Set the dates with the first and second grade professors to do nutritional talks with their classes.
Outcome: Talked to the director, who said I needed a letter to give him with the dates on it and the teachers would plan accordingly. I ask Marleny for an example letter, just so I can get the full name and format of the letters that the health center has sent the school in the past. She gets all huffy and says she writes the letters. So I write up the information for her and she reads it, realizes that it isn’t what she thought it was, I re-tell her what I wanted, and she says no, she will write the letter anyway. She’ll have it on Wednesday. “I can come by tomorrow.” I say. No, she isn’t working tomorrow. “I can come by this afternoon.” No. Wednesday.
Goal #3 – incomplete.

It was going to be such a simple day…