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Her day wasn’t going so well. She was dangling her toes over the ledge, fully prepared to implode – or quit. Frustration boiled over from too many days of chaos. Constant interruptions. Distracted at every turn from doing the work that needed to be done. She’d had enough.
And I asked the question…stopping her dead in her tracks.
He sat across from me lamenting ongoing employee problems. They simply don’t do what he needs. They’re busy solving problems that don’t exist while real problems crop up constantly…without being properly tended to.
And I asked the question…once again, the crickets started chirping.
“How do you want to spend your days?”
We often aim at the outcome we think we’d like, but we don’t often enough consider the daily actions required to achieve that outcome. Thoughtful consideration about how we’d like to spend our time – with an emphasis on our professional/business life – is in order. As with most of life’s important questions, asking is easier than answering.
I want to encourage us to spend time answering the questions. It can help us move forward, even if only by inches. Some days we need to be thankful for inches of progress. But some days, we’ll be able to advance miles. We want opportunities. We want progress. We want improvement. Advancement.
We’re going to fail. Maybe often. So what? Keep swimming. Seth Godin calls it “the dip.”
Everybody experiences a dip. Many of us experience quite a few of them. Keep swimming. Figure out how you want to spend your days.
It only happens when we’re intentional, strategic and methodical. Well, at least part of our time needs to be characterized by those things.
Mentioned in today’s show:
• Jeff Dunham: The Birth of a Dummy (a Biography channel show)
• Jeff Dunham finally got on Comedy Central, but only after he went out on a big limb.
• Net News Wire (a terrific RSS reader that integrates with Google Reader)
Leave me a comment. I’d love to hear what you think.
