Despite not wanting Drama, it’s always there, lurking behind the scenes waiting to pounce when something, anything goes wrong and throws you for a loop. It’s waiting for an opening when you’re weak, when you’re tired, when you think you’ve had enough. It starts with an IM, a meeting that ends early, a coffee in the morning, something innocuous always. But it does always have the potential to end the same way, with you looking…
If you can close your mind to the distractions all around you. You’ll figure out what you want most and how to get there. But if you never close all the distractions, you’ll never be able to figure out how to get there.
How many meetings can you handle in a week? 5? 10? 15? 1? 2? If your limit is something like 12? Why are you taking more? Why are you accepting more? The failure in our meetings is that no one knows what our actual limit is so we keep scheduling simply because we can. We can keep pouring water into a glass because there is space in it, it doesn’t mean we want to drink…
If you can focus on one problem, you will find your purpose. If you can put all your energy into that one thing, you will find what matters and how to make it happen. Ideas will spring forth that you never knew existed from places you never knew you had. All because you set your focus to solving that one problem.
You used to be able to talk with someone and realize the conversation is going to go longer and realize there was a need to have an ad-hoc 2-hour meeting to map out everything that was happening. You never came out of that thinking – “that was a waste of time”. The value of ad-hoc meetings is that they are instantiated at the time a problem is discovered – “Hey we need to chat” -…