Time Management
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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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First, maybe you feel the same, I do not think I’m a great spouse, father, or friend. I don’t mean that like “Woe is me…” – more so that I’m the personality type that I see gaps, areas of improvement, a long running list of things I could be doing differently and/or better. I will…
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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…
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Oddly enough I learned this lesson when remodeling a house we owned in Knoxville. Sometimes you notice something that potentially needs to be fixed BUT, in reality, it only needs fixing because you’re so micro focused on it at the moment. Sometimes it’s best to give it space & time and then reconsider if you…
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First – if you stop reading right now and only want to know 1 pro tip… I’d say schedule 30 minutes to an hour every Friday morning and proactively look ahead at your next week. Look for important meetings, look at your free time, remove any conflicts, block your own time to accomplish some of…