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E2 - Putting Off the Important Stuff? Identify the Important Stuff & Get it Done
E2 - Putting Off the Important Stuff? Identify the Important Stuff & Get it Done
Stop putting things off. Get beyond being just busy and be able to make the deep impact on your results that you want. You are doing shallow work only. Working as a knowledge worker in the corporate world can be tough. The danger is that you are busy. Busy doing the shallow work. The work that doesn't make a big difference. This Podcast will help you learn how to identify important tasks. And know how to get them done. More importantly, it will help you to stop putting things off.
Read the Putting Things Off Podcast Transcript Below:
"I bet you're busy, really, really busy. Well, busy nowadays equal to sjob. No one has a job where they've got a few hours spare to yeah, let's have a look at that new thing." "My name is Darren Smith and you're here at Sticky and Short Stories, the home of Sticky Learning, MBM, trainers to the UK grocery industry."
My Commute
"I worked in corporate for about 15 years and commuted every day, four hours a day to London, two hours there, two hours back. Often, when I walked into my office and there were another 20 emails which I barely touched and yet another email from marketing with 15 attachments to get done within 48 hours. Of course, I hadn't read the last lot, plus voicemails, plus back-to-back meetings. I could not get my head above water." "I was stressed, overwhelmed and it felt like the email monster was just growing."
Putting Things Off, Procrastination
"Now having left, and run time management courses for 15 years, I had to learn and I learned the hard way. I learned what works and what doesn't work. The time management gurus call it procrastination. We call it putting stuff off, putting off the big stuff." "So you have one of those days where you come in, let's say eight o'clock. I'll just have a quick check of my emails and you do. An hour later, a cup of coffee you've had, maybe a chat with a few other people that have come in and you're off to your first meeting around half past nine, 10:00 o'clock. That meeting overruns. You come out of there about quarter past 11. A quick check of your emails, a quick catch up with Bob down the corridor and all of a sudden it's time for a sandwich at your desk whilst you read a couple of reports, and maybe catch up with one of your team."
The Busyness Continues
"And then you're coming out of lunch, you're into the two o'clock meetings. They're overrun and you must get some of this important stuff done. That's what's in the back of your mind, but you never do because you're running from meeting to meeting or email to email." "So you do the quality work at the end of the day when everyone's gone home and at that time when you're at your most tired and you have the least energy is when you start to do that work that makes the real difference."
Brian Tracy
"Brian Tracy, the time management guru from the States wrote a fabulous book called Eat That Frog. The basic premise is that if you can identify the biggest and horrible thing, the frog and get that done first, then the rest of your day will be easier because you've got the worst thing out of the way."
"Now, I never did this in 15 years in corporate, but I wish I had. Because what we're trying to achieve is we're trying to get the things done that make the biggest impact. Now that sounds easy."
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E2 - Putting Off the Important Stuff? Identify the Important Stuff & Get it Done
Stop putting things off. Get beyond being just busy and be able to make the deep impact on your results that you want. You are doing shallow work only. Working as a knowledge worker in the corporate world can be tough. The danger is that you are busy. Busy doing the shallow work. The work that doesn't make a big difference. This Podcast will help you learn how to identify important tasks. And know how to get them done. More importantly, it will help you to stop putting things off.
Read the Putting Things Off Podcast Transcript Below:
"I bet you're busy, really, really busy. Well, busy nowadays equal to sjob. No one has a job where they've got a few hours spare to yeah, let's have a look at that new thing." "My name is Darren Smith and you're here at Sticky and Short Stories, the home of Sticky Learning, MBM, trainers to the UK grocery industry."
My Commute
"I worked in corporate for about 15 years and commuted every day, four hours a day to London, two hours there, two hours back. Often, when I walked into my office and there were another 20 emails which I barely touched and yet another email from marketing with 15 attachments to get done within 48 hours. Of course, I hadn't read the last lot, plus voicemails, plus back-to-back meetings. I could not get my head above water." "I was stressed, overwhelmed and it felt like the email monster was just growing."
Putting Things Off, Procrastination
"Now having left, and run time management courses for 15 years, I had to learn and I learned the hard way. I learned what works and what doesn't work. The time management gurus call it procrastination. We call it putting stuff off, putting off the big stuff." "So you have one of those days where you come in, let's say eight o'clock. I'll just have a quick check of my emails and you do. An hour later, a cup of coffee you've had, maybe a chat with a few other people that have come in and you're off to your first meeting around half past nine, 10:00 o'clock. That meeting overruns. You come out of there about quarter past 11. A quick check of your emails, a quick catch up with Bob down the corridor and all of a sudden it's time for a sandwich at your desk whilst you read a couple of reports, and maybe catch up with one of your team."
The Busyness Continues
"And then you're coming out of lunch, you're into the two o'clock meetings. They're overrun and you must get some of this important stuff done. That's what's in the back of your mind, but you never do because you're running from meeting to meeting or email to email." "So you do the quality work at the end of the day when everyone's gone home and at that time when you're at your most tired and you have the least energy is when you start to do that work that makes the real difference."
Brian Tracy
"Brian Tracy, the time management guru from the States wrote a fabulous book called Eat That Frog. The basic premise is that if you can identify the biggest and horrible thing, the frog and get that done first, then the rest of your day will be easier because you've got the worst thing out of the way."
"Now, I never did this in 15 years in corporate, but I wish I had. Because what we're trying to achieve is we're trying to get the things done that make the biggest impact. Now that sounds easy."
Why Are You on the Payroll?