I always have had a hard time with to do lists. Easy to fill. But hard to see what really needs to get done. What is busy work versus what would help me move forward in my life? It’s fun filling them out, for it feels like everything is now in front of you and is crystal clear. Frustrated by my lack of judgment with respect to what is really important, I started to write down one to do list...
So many times we have an idea of what we want to get done. Sometimes we even can identify the tools we need. But how will we change our routine to use the new tools to get things done? How will we structure our time to learn and use the new tools so that they bring us leverage? How must our focus change to gain leverage from the new tools we will use to get something new done? What is now...
A person I respect, gave me some feedback on my last post “Being Responsibly Direct”. He said that he had a hard time doing this because he was afraid of hurting someone’s feelings. Honestly, I had not considered this possibility. It’s noble not to want to hurt any feelings. No one does. My suggestion around being responsibly direct is more valid either in an...
You hear the word momentum often in sports. “They have the momentum” or “the momentum has shifted to the other team”. You don’t hear very much about momentum when it comes to our lives. The Merriam-Webster definition of momentum includes: “the strength or force that allows something to continue or to grow stronger or faster as time passes”. There is this...
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, talks about how you need 10,000 hours of practice to become really good at something. Think about it. To be good at something we have to spend 27.397 hours per day to “get there” in a year. No time off for holidays. Over three years, it would take 9.13 hours per day including holidays. Early on, I read all the time about how to improve this or...
Life is never quite so certain and is not always forgiving. Lots of our days become a blur for us filled with activity but most times lacking in clarity. The trouble with not having any or little clarity is that our daily lives resemble more of a car on a race track rather than the paths taken by the early settlers of the West on a horse. Sadly, on the racetrack most likely we spend most of the...