Tuesdays: much to do
In this busyness, purpose
Seeking out value
Tag: effectiveness
An Element Of Efficiency: Slowing Down To Speed Up
With all the work I’ve done studying organization and productivity systems, a common element: taking time to thoughtfully consider actions. In today’s day-and-age, it’s easy to get caught up in stimulus:response, on reactive reactions. Or, as the adage goes, “running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off”.
Taking time to:
- Determine the scope of the problem
- It’s nature
- What really is the causality
- Reviewing our priorities
These are all critical to developing the correct solution for a particular challenge. There are always multiple responses and actions one can take. Knowing which one corrects the situation without creating a worse one requires considering all these elements.
It’s so easy, especially in today’s hyper-sped world, to lose sight of the time necessary. The urge to “do something NOW” is so powerful, and it often creates more damage than solution.
Our progress moves faster when we aren’t spending time repairing damage our inattention to details creates.
Welcome to Wednesday
Welcome to today
At the middle of the week
Promise keeps growing
Ah, the middle of the week; bearing it’s challenges. May you continue to go forward, grow and expand in knowledge and wisdom.
Peace to you all, my friends.
Time to Awaken
Time to awaken
Put my feet upon the floor
Go forth and do things
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Abandoning All We Are
Abandon all that we are
So we can become
All that we might be
I see myself trapped by my past, by the barriers erected from fear, insecurity and doubt. “Grow past them…” I counsel myself. “Push past them. They are but vapor, illusion, less real than the dreams. Dreams create! So I shall focus on them.
A new productivity tool
Just discovered Best Self. After briefly skimming their site, I see a lot of potential with their productivity tools. There’s a journal that intrigues me.
It’s set up for 13 week goal setting and tracking. I like the way they break down your goals and then build out plans to make them happen.
Keeping focus in our distraction laden world: truest gold! Yet I chafe at the prices.
I’ll dig deeper, though.
The Power Of The Simple “Thank You”
I pride myself on thanking people. I see this as basic. Time and time again, though, I hear how rarely it happens.
Really, one of the most basic elements of community building: acknowledging each other. An element of “namaste”, of seeing each other at a deep level, of valuing each other. Appreciating everyone’s unique gifts and contributions.
So often, in the comms world, we focus on solving some problem. Once the solution gets executed, off to the next thing. All the work teams put into the resolution vanishes into vapor.
Perhaps the easiest action to take, and one that reaps rewards in terms of connection, yet so often forgotten.
Want to stand out as a communicator? Well, remember the “thanks”.
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Time to focus
A refined focus
Defining what’s important
Time’s competition
Ah, Coffee!
Coffee is lovely
It keeps my brain functioning
Keenly important
May’s Last Day
​This month’s one last day
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