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Sometimes, doing work tasks is like doing the dishes after a big meal.
As long as it all gets done, the order isn’t important.
To avoid laboring over the simile, let’s just talk about doing the dishes first.
It might seem like it makes more sense to do the big pots and pans first, but if you have a shallow sink like mine, they might not be able to fit based on what’s already in there.
Read MoreWhen I was around nine years old, I used to imagine that I was the main character of a movie.
It would have been the most boring movie in the whole world, because I didn’t believe in editing. No, I was trying to get the whole thing in one take.
That is, my whole life. I was trying to live my whole life perfectly.
Read MoreI cleaned the kitchen yesterday. Good for me!
Unfortunately, I only cleaned it after breakfast. I neglected to clean it after dinner, so I have a bunch of dishes, pots, and pans waiting for me this morning.
As much as I’d like to think of cleaning the kitchen as a project that I can just do once and get out of the way, it’s more of a practice — a project that must be done every day, or even more than once a day.
Read MoreIt’s no exaggeration to say that I used to be terrible at bookkeeping.
I would do months’ worth of it in just a few days, generally when I had to send everything off to my accountant for tax time.
My lack of consistent bookkeeping also made me a poor CFO, since I lacked the information necessary to make financial decisions for my business.
Read MoreAs a coach, I like checking in with my clients every day.
Not all of them like checking in with me every day. But those who communicate with me in between appointments are able to accomplish more. It’s simply a question of having more cycles.
There is certainly a limit to how many cycles you can have between live appointments, but it’s not three and it’s not five. It’s a lot more. The more questions that my clients ask, the more we can answer together.
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