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Passion: Articles that deal with the inner drive that we all need to want to MOVE from where we currently are to where we dream to be.
Preparation: These posts reference articles, books, documentaries, speakers, quotes, and other inspirational and formative ideas that I have found that helped me and the people around me.
Practice: Articles in this category have a heavy sports and performance training lean.
Performance: These articles focus on how you go about your work. From networking to communications to finding a better way to do what you do.
Perseverance: Articles in this category speak to the mechanics that we go through both mentally and physically to stay on track and not get STUCK.
Time Management: A Force Multiplier
We have all experienced it.
A project that should have taken three days somehow consumes three weeks. A meeting scheduled for an hour turns into ninety minutes without accomplishing anything more than it would have in the first thirty. An assignment that employees insisted would take an entire month is suddenly completed in two days because the deadline was unexpectedly moved up. A weekend DIY project that took two weeks to complete over three months.
The work didn't change.
The time did.
One of the most overlooked realities of leadership is that work naturally expands to fill the time available to complete it. Give people two weeks for a task that requires three days, and many will unconsciously adjust their pace to consume the entire two weeks. It isn't usually laziness. It is human nature. Without a clear target, urgency fades. Decisions are delayed, conversations become longer, and attention slowly drifts toward things that feel productive but contribute very little to the final outcome.
Stepping Away from the Chaos
But in most cases, individuals cause their own chaos. They’ll argue and give you “excuses” for why they are always running out of time. Why their work is substandard. Why they had to stay late. Why they came to the meeting late. Why they lost the information that they needed. Why their car ran out of gas.
Yes, they always seem to have legit excuses for all the chaos. Shit does happen. But not the same shit every week. When it becomes repetitive then it’s not the “shit” that is happening, it becomes the “shit” that you are neglecting to do when you have time to do it is not getting done. This traffic jam of projects that need to be done builds up, which leads to the chaos. The problem is not “chance”, it’s caused by the person.