DISCLAIMER: If your life is getting easier… if you find yourself with more free time than ever and less worry about your company or your family, this post probably isn’t for you. Instead, here’s a fun video of a dog on a trampoline. See you tomorrow!
Now that those people are gone, and it’s just us, I bet I know something about you.
I bet you’re faced with a choice right now, aren’t you? And you’re struggling to pick one or the other… and I really bet you’d like to do both and probably have already rationalized how you could probably do both, haven’t you?
You can’t. You won’t. I’m sorry. You must choose.
That’s what those trampoline dog watchers have figured out that the rest of us haven’t.
Seriously… that’s it.
I’m not saying which one of your options is better than the other – your mileage may vary, but I am saying one is usually better than two.
Huh??
It’s when we fail to choose… when we try to do too much… or to be all things to all people… that we get screwed up, isn’t it?
My mentor Michele Miller regularly reminds me to wake up every morning and ask myself the following question:
“What am I going to say ‘no’ to today?”
Why not choose who and what to lose?
If you find yourself with too much on your plate:
A) Ask for help.
B) Clean it off as soon as possible. This may require some sacrifice today, but you have help (see point A) and you got yourself into this mess (see point C).
C) Prevent it from happening again by being more judicious about saying “yes.” If your supervisor is putting too much on your plate for you, then you need to speak up. That’s part of your job description, too. That’s something to which you cannot say “no.”
And if you’re still stuck, try this: Toss a coin… not so you can see the outcome, but rather while it’s flipping in the air, your heart will tell you how you hope it lands.
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