Tips on productivity, energy managment, time managment, stress reduction and memory loss. Anything to help your productivity suck less.
maybe a little too interesting...
The online world reminds me of an ancient Chinese curse,
“May You Be Born in An Interesting Time.”
Case in point: mining online content. Talk about interesting! It’s a distraction-laden time-sucking black hole of inefficiency. Not that it doesn’t produce good material, but the time wasted often exceeds the quality of the result.
A distraction-laden time-sucking black hole of inefficiency.
So I contacted my buddy, Lorna, and we’ve resumed our Gmail chat meetings. We connect by chat, then write for 1/2 hour or so, and then share word counts. It’s silly but the meetings keep me going when resistance is high.
Our first meeting after several months took place yesterday. And OUCH, I remembered why I’ve been avoiding this. Writing SUCKS.
I remembered why I’ve been avoiding this for a few months.
Writing sucks.
I’m a professional writer. I know what it takes to get something produced and published. You’d think that by now I could flush out copy without feeling like a big fake.
Not even close.
At one point in my life, I decided that my purpose on this Earth was to be someone who feels all the fear, insecurity, dorkiness, and ambivalence that everyone else feels, but who goes for it anyway.
So what if writing is hard? Everything easy was once hard. I can do hard.
So what if writing is hard? Everything easy was once hard. I can do hard.
Next week I’ll slap out a rough outline for my next book.
Onward ho.
I started seriously tweeting on my blog topic about six months ago. To date, my feedback has been generally good.
Woot.
When new followers show up, I often check their profiles. Most of them have, like, 2 million folks following them. Last count I had, uhm, 86.
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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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This guy is pretty stressed out but he keeps his cool. I do feel sorry for the bull, though.
In the Harvard Business Review, Justin Menkes wrote an terrific blog piece, “How Stress Can Improve Your Performance.” He says,
“Once an executive learns how to manage adrenaline without panic, he or she can grow confident that the sensations that stress induces will not lead to collapse.
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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. :)
