The First Sign of Consciousness is Thinking About Time!

Bloomberg business, good content. Layout customized for Bubbles, the Trailer Park Boy, (a show about life between prison terms), with the beer bottle lenses. Type runs margin to margin with no white space. What a struggle. I read somewhere they have a 28 year graphic director wunderkind. He may have been influenced by the people who reskinned Windows 7.0 and gave us a different look at the rather reasonable price of utter confusion. In the animal world there is no why. Seems that's creeping over into the human world and I'm not sure it's all good.

Did you know the first sign of consciousness is thinking about time? I still remember getting out of school in grade one for summer vacation. I could not comprehend September. It was so far away my 6 yr old brain couldn't understand it. Time is the grid against which we measure things. Measuring is our main access to reality. The measure "6" is neither good or bad until placed against a timeline. Six of what and over what time?

Some tips on managing time,

1. Ask "why" often. A lot of things just don't have to be done.
2. Interruptions mean you stop thinking. Deep thought requires no interruptions.
3. Use time tools. Calendars, planners, journals, CRMs, files, to do lists, etc.
4. Crisis is 11th hour response. Too late, manage better.
5. Learn to say No.
6. In an average office, people spend over 33% of their time looking for things.
7. People with clean workspaces are more productive. Period.
8. Your body clock. Respect it and get more done.
9. Measure, record, observe patterns.
10. Time gets sucked up at the intake stage. Organize at intake.
11. Work has three sizes. Too little, too much, and just right. Do it just right.
12. Health matters when it comes to productivity either mental or physical.
13. Rationalizing and explaining is for the guilty.
14. Theory of constraints applies to time management. Find the one single thing that's stopping you.
15. A brain needs to be managed. Use paper, take action.
16. A mind is like water. When it is still it gets very clear.
17. In the end we're all still dealing with people. Human nature rules everything.

Next week Sales process re-engineering seminar. Full. No more bookings. Please think about attending September event.

For everybody else, see you on Wednesday, for breakfast,
Wolfgang

p.s. Next week, remember location is the Guildford Golf and Country club on 152nd street.
p.s. Eli Goldratt passed away, I'm sorry to hear. A great mind. (TOC, The Goal, etc.).