There is no excuse not to have a date for your work. You can go back three iterations (only three without being absurd) but a date can and should be stated. If you are providing work to someone else or vice versa, in my mind here are the only acceptable responses when asked when the work can be expected to be delivered: 1. Preferred: Date when you will get the deliverable to the person who needs it 2. Good: A date when you will get back to the person to tell them when the deliverable will be delivered 3. Worst (but still better than nothing): A date when you will get back to the person with the date when you can tell them when the deliverable will be delivered. An example of the worst one: I need to check in with Dorothy on how long the task will take, so I will get back to you by Monday with the expected date of the report you need. I cannot see why anyone would not be able to at least provide the worst date, and yet this is accepted a lot in corporations. Dragging “deadlines”, effort and money along with it. 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 Don’t think. Trust yourself. Just like a rap battle, a corporate Q&A or simply talking to a stranger. Trust yourself that you will be able to speak the words you need to speak. In hindsight, you will not know where they came from, seemingly bypassing rational thought. If you let yourself see “failure” as okay, then that takes the resistance (as Seth would say) away and you let yourself perform the best you can. Even better than seeing it as okay, redefine failure so you cannot possibly fail. Feeling sorry for yourself because you got rejected by that girl at the bar? Well, that wasn’t the goal. The goal was to approach one person that day, and that’s what you did, so you succeeded. Forgot all your lines and made a bad impression at a work presentation? Well, that wasn’t the goal. The goal was to stand up and speak when no one else volunteered, so you succeeded. Go easier on yourself. See what happens when you gain momentum from small wins. 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 Your state is the most important thing to get under control. If you are thinking of horrible things all the time, guess what you will find in life? Work on your mindset, the rest will follow. Try to not complain for a month. Switch your watch or armband to the wrong wrist when you catch yourself complaining. See what happens… 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 Why wait for someone else to change things you don’t like? If something bothers you, then use this trigger to go into action mode. Find a solution and implement a fix. What if there is no good solution available? Great. You just got your next business idea. Now go start. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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Apart from containing the most sustainable diet plan on the planet, the slow carb diet, this book is filled with teachings to improve your whole life.
Tim perhaps puts it best: “This book is a Trojan horse full of unexpected transfers.
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What would you do with an extra hour per day? More from the Blog It is amazing to still see how many people have their email popping up, interrupting them from whatever they are doing. By not turning off the notifications, you are basically telling yourself that whatever you have chosen to do proactively is not as important as anyone else’s request for your time. Either that, or the work you are doing is so boring that you welcome any respite in the form of a reactive interruption. This is no way to work. Or live. Kill the interruptions and do some great work. 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 It still surprises me that mentees hear very general advice from “mentors” in a corporate setting. (Mentors in the loosest sense of the word. They are slightly higher on the org chart than you - see reverse the org chart). It benefits the organisation to give very general feedback. No one will ever know if you have achieved it or not by your next annual review. They keep their downsizing options open. You know you are talking to someone experienced when they can break it down for you. If there is not something you can do daily, then it is not actionable. Push your boss to turn their feedback into a daily habit and find out if they are good or lucky. 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 leads to the good life is the good life. Should you save money and hope you live to 65 before enjoying yourself? Or, should you piss it all away in Vegas, buy fast cars, enjoy yourself now as you do not when you will die? Life is full of paradoxes. Why not do both? It is often said that you should live each day as if it were your last. But I think it was Derek Sivers who said that this is terrible advice. You will end up blowing all your money each day and making bad short-term decisions. Better, he says, to live as if it were everyone else’s last day. You would likely be kinder to everyone you met. This is a great thought exercise for empathy and connection. You never know what someone else is going through. And everyone has their own shit to deal with. Live each day as if it were a lifetime. You would want to cram in a bit of each thing that made you happy. And you would not want to go to bed with any bad feelings left out in the open. Live like this for two weeks and see what happens. Enjoy the journey. 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 If you win at gambling the first time, you always think you can get your money back after you lose. If you get bitten by a dog the first time you try to stroke one, you will be frightened of dogs. Until you have enough other experiences to convince you of the contrary. Just because you keep trying doesn't mean the universe owes you a success. But it doesn't mean that because you failed at everything in life, you will fail at the next thing either. So try. And keep on trying. What is the alternative? You weren't put on earth to stay in bed. 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 Instead why not make it so you cannot fail? No one cares how long it took you to get something. Enjoy getting there. Eric hip Hop Preacher took 12 years to get a degree but it is not on the degree how long it took - no one cares. Gary Vaynerchuk says he enjoys the process: he will not enjoy the day he actually can buy the NY Jets. Everything I have ever owned, I have enjoyed more looking forward to it, reading about it, obsessing over it, than when I actually get it. So how can you make it so you cannot fail? Redefine success. Tim Ferriss, says what would it look like if it were easy. And also, even if I fail, how can I learn something from this. James Altucher aims to get just 1% better every week. Redefine failure for yourself so you cannot fail. My business cannot fail, because the aim is only to do the process of making a business for my own learning and enjoyment. If no one buys my product, I have still succeeded. If 1 person buys it, I will be ecstatic. My end goal is to get financial freedom for my family. I need £600k. But even if this takes me until retirement, I have enjoyed the journey along the way and at least I tried to get their quicker. Fed up of meeting hell? Our iPhone app can help. Find out more.
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