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Month: November 2017
Stop Being a Chronic Starter and Finish with the help of Jon Acuff
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How many projects have you started and never finished? Little bits of leftover code sitting around. Half written drafts of stories. That shelf you were supposed to build and still sits like a lurking troll in the garage. Yup we’ve all got some projects started and not finished around, but what if all you have…
You’ve only got 100% to give for a few hours then you have 20%
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Yesterday I talked about my Mullet Method of focused work. One of the keys to that method is that I take a big break from 9 – 12. This break fuels me up for my Manager time later in the day and then for some more Maker time. In October and November 2017, I cut…
The Mullet Method of Deep Work
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There are two pictures of me that I think are stellar. I’m 6 or 7 in them. In one I’m missing a front tooth, and I’m wearing a red plaid shirt. I have short hair up top, and you guessed it, long hair in the back. The other picture is almost the same, except I…
How Do I get Deep Work Done in the Midst of Random Priority Distractions
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A reader name Eric reached out to me recently with this question: I just Instapaper’d a couple of your deep work articles but I had a question: what can you do to get the most deep work possible when a good chunk of your time is taken up by unscheduled, urgent, and energy draining tasks…
Reading for November 2017
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We’re trying something a bit new. I read a bunch so on the last Saturday of a month I’ll bundle up the best stuff along with a short summary on why you should read it too. If you don’t like it let me know. If you do like it let me know. I’ll do it…
Which tasks will you Decide to Suck at This Week?
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My secret project is done now because I decided to suck at a bunch of tasks this week until the big one was done. It was easy to decide what to do when I answered this ONE question: “What is the one task this week I can do that will make everything else easy or…
Dad is All In, not a bumbling idiot and it’s time to recognize that
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I was having a discussion this week with two ladies at figure skating. They said they loved seeing me play with my kids that aren’t on the ice. For the first hour of figure skating, I have one kid on the ice, so I get to play with a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old. For the…
Where to Start When You’re Drowning in Business and Life
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When you realize you are out of sync with your Strengths and your goals, and you have put yourself and your health on the back burner, don’t beat yourself up. Just restart. – From Frustrated to Frickin’ Awesome It happens to all of us at some point, including me. I don’t have it all together.…
What Good Employee Feedback Looks Like
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Most businesses do employee feedback in the form of a yearly review. It’s what they’ve heard someone else does and by making it yearly, they only have Schedule time for it once a year. But there are a few issues with that. First, you’re showing that you don’t value it if you’re thinking trends towards…
Clients are an Awesome Constraint
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Deep down, we all harbor a fantasy: We do creative work, throw it in the mail — someone else sends us a contract and doesn’t bother us again. No one gets to tell us what do to; our art remains pure and untouched. – Perennial Seller That is the dream of most developers, isn’t it?…
