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Priorities and Boundaries Concerning Meetings – The Small Decisions That Affect Them

Don’t forget the small decisions

I am a big fan of calendaring these days. 15 to 30 minutes on Sunday allow me to keep track of the incoming and outgoing quite efficiently.

With that said, I noticed something when I started keeping track of the meetings and my lateness (by paying for everyone’s food/drink. If you want to remember something add a pain point). I realized that small decisions made after the meeting created more tardiness than any other decision.

  • More than the train
  • More than getting up late
  • More than making sure I complete my habits

What is a small decision post-meeting?

It’s the little discussions that happen after the meeting finishes, after “closing remarks” that keep it going.

Some examples:

  • Follow up details for the next meeting
  • Clearing up misunderstandings
  • Goodbyes

All of these things are critical to maintaining a relationship, and all of them quietly add a few minutes. It takes a meeting from 4 – 4:30 and makes it 4 – 4:45.

So, when scheduling a meeting, make sure you either:

  • Establish boundaries before the meeting and state that there is a hard out earlier than necessary to get out
  • Add padding to your schedule to account for it (if you didn’t set the meeting)
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Three Lessons From Being Sick

Being Sick Is Awful

It’s been a long time since I’ve been sick.

As a kid, I used to get sick often, about once every 2 months. It used to come like clock work. Some of it was self-induced (imagine giving yourself stress headaches in the third grade…) . I got used to the idea of sickness. I had methods and a plan. By the time I got to college I had a “sick kit” always ready. I walked with Dayquil at all times.

The Change

In the last year or so since I decided to eat better, I stopped getting sick. In fact, before this week, the last time I remember getting a cold was early last year, January of 2015. I ended up getting confident. I threw away most of my medicine. When my roommate was sick, I didn’t care. I used to laugh, because he made light of my decision to not wear a coat this winter and swear I would catch a cold. I would just watch him get sick at the usual rate.

Well, my ego caught up with me and I caught it this week.

I forgot how debilitating it is.  When you are in the middle of the worst of it, it feels like a mental and physical block. Your reserves are done. You can’t think. You are in pain.

It sucks. I learned something.

Three lessons

  • Ego gets you no where – I was a jerk to hold that over my roommate. What did I gain from that?  He might have helped me this week if I had helped him when he was sick.
  • Focus is the ultimate key – Being debilitated forced me to think through what I wanted to do.  I accomplished some things (kept my altMBA assignments in order) by annihilating everything else on my schedule (even this blog in some respects – using my altMBA assignments to fill in)
  • You can’t appreciate recovery without being sick – Like the yin and the yang. I don’t appreciate change if I am always the same. The best part of life is the dynamic. I was sick but ultimately I get well, and my immune system is stronger.
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Short Post Vol 4

Short Post vol 4

I guess I will be doing this once a week.

Been really busy lately. My head feels odd. Like It needs a rest.

Because f that, I am not going to stress it.

Just going to get to 100 words, and take this letter away.

The show went well last night, both actually. Eric I doesn’t want to take no for an answer with his next show.

Dillon’s went well as well. Nice ego boost.

I need to start letting my video fly, and take criticism. I got some good and some bad, but that’s what I need. Open. No one cares yet.

Do water push ups 3 things reminders
Dont 16/8 meditation vegetable juice thank you cpap todo

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Tired

I am off of work today.

To be honest, I work my best when I have 4 days to do instead of 5. This flies in the face of most people, because people assume you need to work the 5 day a week schedule to get things done.

I work as a creative and a programmer, both things that require a lot of brainpower to make the move to do something great.

If I wanted to do mediocre work, I would crank the headphones and go slowly, spend x amount of hours, and I suppose look like a champ, considering that is what some of my coworkers do.

I don’t get how anyone can listen to music and work…especially with lyrics, how do you concentrate.

I have a lack of sleep today, mostly because I hung out and had bad things with a bunch of comedians. It was a fun night- but I am left a little drained for the whole experience.

In short, this is the reason this will be so short. I am tired, a little distracted, but I have to put something down, something to paper, to keep the habit going.

Besides, I am actually starting to like this.

16/8 done
reminder done
todo done
water not done
3 things done

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