Spring 2012 sees the return of the planning retreat. This year we have a new format running the retreat over two days with an overnight at the beautiful Hawthbush Farm. Click here for full details.
In the meantime, Steve Hearsum invites you to stop work and consider, is there any purpose to what you do?
From my experience, you can’t wait around to find what you love. You gotta work your ass off. And then you find what you love by doing piles and piles of work.
Kate Bingaman Burt
Via Swiss Miss
To get things done you need a plan. But good plans can be hard to create. If you are striving for clarity, meaning and direction in your career, find the time and space to do this with People Who Do this March.
My daily scaffold consists of:
Coffee – grinding beans, making espresso, steaming milk – very nice process, good thinking time. Sometimes Radio 4 is on in the background.
Review calendar, the hard landscape, the stuff that I have to do today or at a time today.
Do some work, project stuff – not emails.
I try to put off looking at emails until I’ve done at least an hour’s work.
I then have little bits of time throughout the day for checking my emails and my action folder in my emails.
With emails I:
Scan the inbox for trash, junk and bacon (social/newsletters/stuff I’d like to read but not essential) – I move them to the relevant folders.
I scan the inbox for any very quick to respond to emails – and send responses (trying hard to use these guidelines - http://emailcharter.org/ )
What’s normally left are emails that are going to require more in depth responses, or some project work – 2 ways of dealing with these – first, move them all to your action folder, get them out of inbox – next, book some time in to deal with them as a batch, or put time in for particular emails.
It’s not like this everyday, but, I try as much as possible to keep to this routine.
