Martini Musing - Connections: Compulsion or Commitment?
My friend Maureen Rogers’ post Weekend Warriors is particularly apt on this Friday when I’m full of spring fever and out of ambition:
On a recent Sunday morning, I checked my e-mail, and found one from one of the other consultants I’m working with on a client project.I replied, and as I was hitting the “send” button, a message came in from one of the clients who was on the thread.
Five minutes later, one of other clients responded.
Of the six people on the e-mail list, four were working at the same time on a Sunday morning.
Wow. That’s just sad.
Like Maureen, it’s no big deal for me to work after hours or on the weekend, although I do my best not to make a habit of it. It’s a trade-off for those Fridays when I decide to shut down early and go see a really bad movie…or the Tuesday when I feel more like hiking than cranking on the computer…but, there’s a big difference between compulsion and commitment.
Ask yourself “do I really need to do this right now?” You’ll be amazed at how many things can wait until Monday….or forever in the make-busy corporate world. (Back in my corporate days, I used to have a “three-pile” system, automatically sorting a large number of “urgent, critical, do right now” emails and memos into the “don’t bother unless somebody much higher up screams” pile. Very few of those ever resurfaced.)
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Stop reading this right now! I’m outta here and you should be too! Happy Friday!
Are you still here? Well, you can also go browse all my Friday Martini Time posts…or check out my guest post over at Lip-Sticking: Marketing to Us Bag Ladies.
Now, really GO!
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