Working on the weekends
If you want, you can. But here’s the thing, you need to understand this is your choice. If you can’t say no to work, or you need to be working all the time, because any reason, ponder this question: Is this a pattern? When it becomes a pattern, you get “obsessed” with work, it’s not a choice anymore. And you’re in your business because you wanted to make the right choices for you. Disconnect. To-ta-lly. from work. Here are 2 benefits you’ll find: You won’t burn out. You’ll leave your brain to…
Weekends
As an entrepreneur, business owner, solo consultant… do you work on the weekends?
Stages of risk acceptance
In short: when you have nothing, you try, fail and do whatever it takes to get things moving. That takes you to a place where things in the environment are the status quo and you break it. However, when you get to the first results, you want predictability. So you try and fail less and embrace the status quo. You get afraid of things failing now. You have more at stake. And that can hold you back. What Blair Enns calls the The Innoficiency Problem.
Procrastination is productive.
Friend-of-the-list and fellow daily writer, Shweta send this message about “Not all days can be equally productive, and that’s OK.” Some thoughts about this are that also, doing nothing is doing. Because stop time is productive. That’s why pauses are needed. We’re not machines —and even them, they need repairs, stop times, preventive maintenance and so on. Otherwise you’d burnout. Sometimes being “unproductive” is highly productive. Procrastination is productive. And here’s Rory Sutherland to…
What’s wrong with me?
Sorry, everybody. Third is a charm: https://www.tiktok.com/@oneminutebass/video/7298332506716146977?is_from_webapp=1&web_id=7327430302627677728
A little snafu
On yday’s message the link in “Music is ____” was hidden and not clear (but clever(?)) So here it is to have more context, and clear up the message. 🙂 Now you can click in the picture and you’ll follow the link. 🙂
Music and business
Can we think of business as music? Here’s what I mean: “Fill in the blank. Music is ______.” Now your turn. Business is ______.
I need your help on this one
Have you ever thought of getting to learn an instrument? As an adult now, or even when you were a kid. (Bonus points if you thought of it for a kid of your own or in your closed ones). And if you did, but quite didn’t get to it, mind sharing with me what stopped you from it? I’m participating on a workshop and those insights from you would give me a HUGE hand on what I’m trying to learn here. 🙂 [Not music, btw]. Thanks a ton for reading. And looking forward to hearing back from you. 🙂
Helping by saying No.
Author, data architect and fellow daily emailer, Andrew Jones, wrote back to “The thing about scope creep” with an awesome insight (bolding mine): “I’d add another one: saying no.I often say that saying no is the most important skill I’ve learned in my career.I always wanted to say ‘yes’, because I wanted to help people, and it was just easier!But I’d end up over promising and under delivering, or be prevented for saying yes to things that mattered more because I’d already promised too much.”…
The thing about scope creep
The problem is not scope creep, it’s not knowing how to: 1) limit scope. 2) get fine with good enough. 3) identify the right scope and timeline properly. When you lose sight of it, you get stuck in the trenches. A way to avoid this: be ruthless in what is important and what’s not.