Priorities
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Now, there is busyness that reflects a plan of activity, a pattern of priorities, and a sense of purposefulness. It is a good and satisfying busyness through which one grows and increases competence. But there is also a busyness (a destructive busyness, actually) that reflects a chaotic way of life – a way of doing…
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Lesson Learned #13 – Quarterly Planning Part 2 of 2 – Eisenhower Method “Eisenhower Matrix”… sounds fancy, right? I assume a good amount of us have seen it or heard it mentioned in various ways in our professional tenures. I first heard about it in my first post-collegiate position when my skip level leader started…
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We’ve started the new year and, if you’re somewhat like me, you may be sitting in the middle of two thoughts: For me, this isn’t necessarily a December into January thought. It hits me probably every 3 to 4 months. For some reason that’s my general cycle of “knock out a bunch of things… let…
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It was a random workday when a friend came by my office and as we were catching up, he said “Work is infinite”. I forget the entire context but the sentiment I recall was that he was pushing on putting work into appropriate perspective. Be OK taking a couple days off, recognize that work is…
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There are three comedians throughout my life that have made me laugh to the point of tears. Brian Regan, Mitch Hedberg, and Nate Bargatze. Primarily I really enjoy their dry humor and quick wit. “I can’t tell you what hotel I’m stayin’ in, but there are 2 trees involved. They said “Let’s call this hotel…