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Redesigning your career.. don’t do it all at once.
I wrote this up quite some time ago but it seems most of it is just as relevant now.
Inspired by this lifehacker post – Tim Ferriss and Marci Alboher on Redesigning Your Career – featuring Tim Ferris and Marci Alboher talking at Google about of their books.
The main gem I took from listening to them talk is this:
You can pursue multiple careers but don’t try and pursue them all at once.
Drive and build one for a while then move onto the next one… while continuing the previous one. Keep adding incrementally.
In the past I’ve made a few attempts at to do everything at once.
It doesn’t usually work out for me.
Start with one thing – what’s most important or urgent right now
Get it moving quickly and then tweak it
(Hat tip: Ben Young (@bwagy) and Chris Guillebeau for various chats and comments about this)
Spring Resolution: Do less, Impact more…
Do less, Impact more
That’s what I came up with when trying to squeeze my current ideas into 4 words for a recent Intersect meetup.
It is in part I was inspired by this recent post by Seth Godin.
I keep saying I’m busy and don’t have time to do things, but yet I’m spending a lot of my ‘non work’ time either doing things I feel a duty to do, instead of the things I really want to do.
So over the next few months, I’m going to endeavour to start doing less of the things I just do automatically or out of duty.
This doesn’t mean I’m just going to abandon things I’m expected to do (like fixes for old clients).
- That wouldn’t serve me or anyone else very well
But I’m going to start tieing up the loose ends: fixing problems properly, so I only do it once.
If I still have to do something I’m not excited about, I want to do it consciously not just as an automatic reaction.
Basically I’m aiming to discover how much free time I really have and then be able to dedicate that to things I’m really passionate about.
Turn tiredness and frustration into inspiration
Worn out? tired? frustrated?…
For me this is common.
Its happens when I find all my energy and drive going nowhere.
Turn that energy into something worthwhile…
What can you do right now?
What can you do today?
What have you been waiting for time to do?
What have you been putting off?
Don’t sit round being unproductive or trying to finish the task that’s frustrating you…
Take 5 mins, 15 mins, an hour… Take as long as you need or can…
Do something else…
Turn your energy into something great…
Maybe you have a project you’ve been waiting to start?
You’ve been meaning to make a loan on Kiva?
You want to volunteer your time? (donatenz.co.nz)
Go for it!
Do it now!
You might find completing that frustrating task much easier afterwards…