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” -…
How many times do you open the package and throw out the instructions? I do all the time. But someone worked on them because they knew I was going to do things wrong right out of the gate. The ones I do read, they aren’t written in 6px fonts and folded over 17 times. It’s akin to the person with the headache trying to understand the dosage they need to take. They aren’t looking for…
Is the first place you wish you started. Because then you wouldn’t have had to go through all that “trying stuff and failing and feeling like garbage about not having got it perfect before.” This is true. But now you know the first place to look next time, so now next time there will be a last place to look. The Last Place to Look is based on where you are in figuring things out,…