Ever felt like Hercules fighting the Hydra? I do: with my work. When I finished a task, there were still more to do. Every time you cut one head, two more appeared in its place ...
all say we value the balance that family comes first, we need time to rest ... But when "we must finish this task is very difficult to live by with those values. For years I believed that my "identity" was my job: I was doing what he did. At that time did not consider myself an "obsessive", but someone "committed." So, did whatever was necessary to finish the job: dealing nights, weekends, lunch, etc ...
But eventually, I discovered a sad truth-telling, though: I could work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, could work for ten lifetimes ... and still have work to do! There is never enough time to do all the work ... because there's always more.
This "realization" forced me to re-prioritize my goals could no longer meet with all that he intended to do. Before, it was likely to finish choosing the task easier, shorter and more fun ... instead of the more important. Now, I have to choose strategically.
course, complete a task is motivating: there is always a feeling of satisfaction when we finished our "to do", but it is gratifying to find that "some of these tasks, are just good ideas that can wait.
also learned to delegate to others and first finish my things, they depend on others to do their job. The result was a plan based on "key tasks." Finally, I reduced my "to do" with a very simple, but effective:
1. Multiply my efforts: What tasks can be used in more than one way? Will this effort be part of more than one project?
2. Multiply my results: What tasks have benefits in the short and long term? What products of a task can help solve others?
3. Multiply my strengths: What tasks are more effective, faster and easier for me than for someone else?
4. Multiply my resources: Just as I choose the tasks that I feel stronger, I defer to those against which I feel weak or less. What tasks are more effective, faster and easier for someone else for me? Before
understand the limitations, our own and others, against any work I used to think that if he admitted that there was not enough time to do everything, it would be unproductive. So if you wanted to be productive, must do more: more hours, more projects, more customers, more applications, etc ... Complete a task and move to the next used to be my main goal.
But ending is not always as effective. A major problem faced by organizations, and individuals, is the extra time. We all know companies in which it is impossible to obtain a promotion if we pulled out on time. In a company with that policy, how can we be motivated? If we know that we will stay for 3 more hours ... How do we feel the next morning?
In this regard, it is important to highlight the "Swedish view: in Sweden, people who work after their schedule are considered inefficient. There, the organizational culture says "If you can not finish your work on your normal schedule, then you have a time management problem."
is meritorious work overtime ... but we can not pretend that there are no costs. Of course, we all have deadlines to meet ... and we are not Swedes. Occasionally, I go to bed later to finish a report, but it is the exception not the rule.
Recognizing that, in any way-not finish all the work (and I can do it tomorrow or next week), when I say "Honey, I have to work late" live internal conflict known before. It is a discovery that I "release" and allows me to live the life you truly believe. A life where you really "I am what I do" because I do what I value. And that includes my work, my family, my friends, my health, etc. I see my entire job ... but I also want to see my whole life
"Taking the decision to go today, not in pursuit of your dreams, but that God has for you ..."
"Call to me and I will answer you and show you great things "Jeremiah 33:3
GUILLERMO RAMIREZ BP
Aconcagua: The Stone Sentinel
E-mail: aconcagua@telmex.net.co
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