Forget feedback At the start of your career, job or project, get lots of feedback. At some point when you know yourself, better to forget feedback from all but the best of what you want to become. It is biased by the perception of the person giving it to you. It almost impossible to not be wrapped in their desires rather than your best interests. And, as change is much slower than people realise, it will be hard for them to notice when you are making progress. Do you really want to be become like your boss? Why set your sights so low? You can get information from anyone in the world that you admire. Read a book, send an email, schedule a call, buy a mentor. Just because you have access to someone that is slightly higher than you does not mean they will have good advice. Instead, look inwards and focus on habits. Progress is exponential, not linear. Doing something small each day will not seem to be doing much in the short term, but this is the key to lasting change. You will shoot past everyone above you. Stay the course. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog What time are you going to stop working today? This is the most important decision you can make to supercharge your productivity. Once you have decided this, everything else is easy to decide: Ask yourself: Which work is important? What meetings am I contributing to versus sitting through? Who is a help and who is a hindrance? Remember:
…and no one will notice – especially if you have got the important stuff done by cutting out the rest. Too hard to do – imagine last time you took a holiday. That flight is leaving. Did you stay to do that extra report? Did you let it drop? Or did you get someone else to do it? Focus on what you are great at and drop everything else. Just as if you were on holiday. Everyday. Try it for two weeks and see what happens. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with and extra hour per day? No one comes to work trying to do a bad job. This is worth remembering: How can you help others to overcome your shared problems? But where is the limit? If they are your superior, is this still the right mind-set? If they are your peer and competing for promotion with you is this still the right mind-set? What if they are incompetent and you are covering up for them time and time again? What if they do not listen to your help and the project or business is failing as a result? This may still be the right course of action. Sometimes the help they need is to be set free to do something they are better at. A different project, a different job, a different company. Even if they do not think so at the time, if it is not working what's going to change? Or maybe it is you that needs to change? Remember we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. Try this thought exercise of finding the good in others. Think what their intentions could be if they were a good person, if they were scared, insecure or shy. Then look at your own actions and imagine how this could be perceived by others assuming bad intentions. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with and extra hour per day? He's never worked a day in his life, said the labourer looking at a suited man. What is work? What are we going to do when there are no jobs? With the rise of AI and geographical arbitrage, this might be a real problem sooner than we think. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
What would you do with and extra hour per day? When starting a new job you should probably try to find out why things are done a certain way. If the answer is, "I don't know, we just do it" or "we've always done it like this", then there is no better red flag. Change it. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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