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Considering Wisdom #63
A weekly newsletter from BobBarnardnm.com
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Thoughts on the intersection of Society/Culture, Productivity/You, and Wisdom/Knowledge.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Benjamin Franklin
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Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. It is as if everyone is trying to cram everything they didn’t get done during December into January and February. This week culminated in a trip to Denver, where it is expected to be -6 degrees on Saturday and -7 degrees on Sunday. I should have kept more cold-weather clothes, although we don’t need them in New Mexico. I’ll see how it goes. I didn’t freeze, but there was a 77-degree difference from the time I left until I got home.
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To change your life, you need to change your priorities. Mark Twain
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Are you too busy? Most of the time I think I am. But it is not that we are too busy. It is just a matter of prioritizing and using my time more wisely. As I said last week, when I think of all my commitments for this year, it seems like I don’t have enough time to do it all. But the opposite is true. There is always enough time to get it all done if you prioritize and schedule it all.
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Being too busy is simply a state of mind. For example, my task list currently has about 40 items on it and probably isn’t complete. I could look at the list and feel like I don’t have enough time to do it all or I can prioritize the tasks that need to be done today and allocate my time first to those and when they are done go on to the next.
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Prioritizing sounds easy, but it requires decisions and good choices. So, what do I look at when I’m prioritizing:
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1. When does it have to be done? This seems obvious, but it isn’t when you have 40 or more items. So, I set my next week's priorities on Sunday and then review them at the end of each day to make sure I am on schedule.
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2. What kind of work is it? Some of my work is routine and some requires a more focused me and a clearer head. For routine stuff, I leave it until later in the day as I tend to be sharp about an hour after I get up until midafternoon.
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3. What meetings do I have to schedule? A good part of my day is taken up with Zoom meetings, so I must schedule my tasks around them.
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4. Be sure to schedule in free time to allow your brain to reset before the next project.
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I will talk more about decision-making on my new substack blog: the hewmane human. You are all invited to see more of my writing there.
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1. How do you prioritize your work by project or just tasks?
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2. How do you make sure that you are working on the most important project/task next?
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3. Have you come to grips with the fact and realized you can’t get everything done every day?
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1. Plan your next week to identify what you want to get done each day.
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2. Review your progress each evening to see how you are doing.
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3. List those items that didn’t get done and think about why. I overbooked. I got interrupted. Someone else changed my priorities.
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