PLANNING

The Secret Is Choosing

Nearly everybody who started the summer Implementation Lab for Entrepreneurs yesterday had at least two significant projects they wanted to tackle over the next six weeks.

And these were no small projects--writing and recording videos for a new course AND establishing a robust affiliate program for a fall offer; building and launching a new business site AND redesigning a garage to serve as an art and meditation space…

No slackers, these business owners. Plus they all agreed that on top of their projects they absolutely needed to use the summer to rejuvenate, regenerate, play with family and friends...

Of course they do! AND it's a lot to take on.

So how do you do it successfully?

This was a bad idea...

WHY do I sometimes think that something is such a good idea, and then it turns out to be such a bad idea but I keep going anyway, like if I can just force myself through it it will be totally worth it? This is what just happened to me, and some ways it might help you when your own brilliant ideas have you banging your head against the wall...

How to feel amazing when you definitely can't do it all

Nope. I can’t do it. I can’t do it all.

And, while I understand this concept intellectually, somehow every time I have open space in my calendar the cold, hard facts about how long it actually takes to accomplish things start to mist over, and, as if in a dream, I begin to imagine that it actually IS possible to do everything. Right here, right now.

To which I can only say, “HA!”

Yep, I cried. Shocker.

A couple of weeks ago I attended my son’s school talent show. He is seven. He held up a glass and showed the audience that there was a quarter in the glass. It was good that he said this, because I don’t think anyone in the audience could actually see that there was a quarter in the glass. Then he made the quarter disappear. (I don’t think anyone could actually see this either.)

How to Focus When Your Brain is a Kaleidoscope

I just got this note from someone who participated in my last Get One Thing Done Day, we'll call her Abby:

"I 'got one thing done,' Jennifer, and put project to-do lists on my bulletin board, plus made shelves for individual project papers. But there are so many. I'm a KALEIDOSCOPE, with many interests. Setting priorities is hard. I end up doing the urgent things, jumping from one to another, all so important."

C'mon, Flip It: From "Coming Up Short" to "Celebrating"

OK, so I know I’ve spent the year running programs and workshops designed to help people get their stuff done, and that a lot of the questions I ask have to do with what things you wished you’d gotten to this year but didn’t. And I’m not going to pretend that it’s not true that there are probably things on your list you haven’t gotten to—I know it’s certainly true for me.