Tips on productivity, energy managment, time managment, stress reduction and memory loss. Anything to help your productivity suck less.
Where do I begin?
Before I start any writing project, I check off my ten essentials and make sure they’re in order. They save TIME and ENERGY, and they support successful completion no matter how resistant I am:
Henny Penny bustled through the chicken coop, cackling her dire warning, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”
Turkey Lurkey gobbled and hopped in circles. Goosey Loosey flapped a bee-line for the farm pond. Foxy Loxy parked himself outside of the fence and waited.
As Henny Penny charged through the back forty, she stopped just short of running over a tiny chickadee, flat on her back with her feet in the air.
“What are you doing?” Henny Penny squawked. “Don’t you know, the sky is falling!?”
“I know,” said the chickadee, shifting her legs so her feet reached even higher. “One does what one can.”
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- Michael D Pollock, “The Bigger Life Blog”
I learned about Michael Pollock when I was researching online thought leaders. Michael has several interviews with a variety of thought leaders, located on his blog, The Bigger Life Blog: How to make a living online while making a difference in the world. Michael left a lucrative career to focus on purpose driven work, and created another equally successful business financially and emotionally. He is as forthright, practical, and humble as he is savvy. His interview is divided into two posts. This section talks about how he makes a living at making a difference, and how he manages his energy to keep it going. The second posting (tomorrow) will be 7 specific steps on “How to keep going when you feel like giving up.”
Did you ever work at a job without consciously connecting it to your values?
I’m sitting in Starbucks attempting to update my blog. How can I possibly think about adding to the Making Excuses series while the world continually teeters on the brink of collapse? I take a sip of coffee and try again.
Nope, can’t do it.
Writing helps me make sense of things. So on my third effort, I write about galvanizing a heartfelt, proper response to a disaster halfway across the world, without simultaneously devaluing my own modest efforts and personal concerns.
I’m writing a series about the validity of excuses. Last week we tackled, “I can’t decide what to do.” This week’s excuse is:
“I don’t follow through very well. But at least I’m honest about it.”
gosh darn
Congratulations. You’ve successfully camouflaged an ignoble rationalization using a deceptive excuse.
This is my super simple Excel 2010
social media spreadsheet. I use it as a weekly planning tool. Anyone who wants to download, have at it. I know it's rudimentary. If you do something clever with it, send me a copy. :)
