* I'm going to try your email thing too. Let's keep each other accountable. Via email.
* Lately, Ive been turning off the "data" part of my blackberry unless I need it. It's been unnerving, but really refreshing.
* Of the people I've met from your team, I have to agree. They're awesome.
* I'm struggling with this one literally right this second. Working on a proposal for a giant potential project that I'm realizing I don't have much passion for. Hm.
* Yeah, keep the reality coming.
Gene Blishen
· 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing that, it means that what I have been thinking for a long time is not totally abnormal.
• e-mail doesn't need to be answered within minutes. I figure days works better. • I limit myself to a group of tech blogs and a group of business blogs as must read every day. Twitter addiction is another matter. Maybe twice a day is enough but darn it some of those feeds are so interesting. • The absolute key to any great business. • This one is in a constant state of flux. Happiness vs passion vs what is necessary. • I go back to the phrase " it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all". You could say "it is better to have been honest and transparent than follow the management gurus 10 best management practices".
You never really arrive at the ideal you think you need. It is a constant dilemma. Just when you think you have arrived bang - something else happens. The neat thing, the vital ingredient that I see as having changed is that now people like you and Brent are talking/writing about it. Years ago one would have been considered 'weak' to share this. That is a big step.
Brad
· 1 year ago
@Brent - I'm definitely down with the accountability game. Day 1 has been pretty good without emails but still finding other ways to not get what I planned done. Heh, always improving!
@Gene - Appreciate the compliment. Following in your footsteps is something I'll think I'll always work to achieve and I loved the 2nd phrase. Hah!
Hopefully my 'good' judgment can be my guide, in transparency, in hopes that I don't step over that line of privacy whereby I begin to effect others.
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* I'm going to try your email thing too. Let's keep each other accountable. Via email.
* Lately, Ive been turning off the "data" part of my blackberry unless I need it. It's been unnerving, but really refreshing.
* Of the people I've met from your team, I have to agree. They're awesome.
* I'm struggling with this one literally right this second. Working on a proposal for a giant potential project that I'm realizing I don't have much passion for. Hm.
* Yeah, keep the reality coming.
• e-mail doesn't need to be answered within minutes. I figure days works better.
• I limit myself to a group of tech blogs and a group of business blogs as must read every day. Twitter addiction is another matter. Maybe twice a day is enough but darn it some of those feeds are so interesting.
• The absolute key to any great business.
• This one is in a constant state of flux. Happiness vs passion vs what is necessary.
• I go back to the phrase " it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all". You could say "it is better to have been honest and transparent than follow the management gurus 10 best management practices".
You never really arrive at the ideal you think you need. It is a constant dilemma. Just when you think you have arrived bang - something else happens. The neat thing, the vital ingredient that I see as having changed is that now people like you and Brent are talking/writing about it. Years ago one would have been considered 'weak' to share this. That is a big step.
@Gene - Appreciate the compliment. Following in your footsteps is something I'll think I'll always work to achieve and I loved the 2nd phrase. Hah!
Hopefully my 'good' judgment can be my guide, in transparency, in hopes that I don't step over that line of privacy whereby I begin to effect others.