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Putting personal tasks like calling people or visiting friends on your list isn’t impersonal. I’ve been told by several of my friends that I’m really good at getting people together and maintaining relationships. That’s because it’s really important to me, but also because I actually make time for it. I make sure I see at least one friend socially every week.
In my first interview of the MoPro series on healthy and productive mobile professionals, road warriors and business travelers, I knew I had to interview Ken Lubin. Ken is the Managing Director of ZRG Partners and Founder of Executive Athletes, which has over 15,000 business and athlete professionals who train at a high level in sports. Ken was the co-winner of the 2013 Death Race and winner of the Team Ultra Beast World Championships in 2012, among other athletic accomplishments.
We all have friends (or at least I hope you do!). We all have family. We have colleagues, peers and acquaintances. We have Accountability Partners. Wait – what? You don’t have an Accountability Partner? You don’t even know what that is?
The takeaway from this article and study on sitting? Get off your ass and move a few minutes every hour. I like the Pomodoro technique and take a break every 25 minutes.
Get Shit Done isn’t a double meaning for checking email on the toilet.
Are you like this woman? Most people go to the bathroom as soon as they wake up in the morning and right before bed. Are you so busy that within mere minutes of waking up, still bleary-eyed and stumbly, you grab your phone or laptop on the way to the bathroom and start checking your email?
Is the first item on your job description ‘Read and answer emails’? Unless you are in customer service, I bet it isn’t, however that’s what most people spend their day doing. Do you suck at the email drip? Do you let your email determine your day? Email is another person’s agenda.
Repeat after me “I will never be able to read everything I want to on the internet and it’s okay.”
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When you are mobile professional your office may be your car, a plane, subway car, hotel, coffee shop, briefcase, laptop bag or even your pockets. It’s important to see it this way so you can be organized and productive where ever you are. Just because you are on a plane and you’re 6’4 and your knees are up to your chin doesn’t mean that you can’t get something done. Maybe you can’t work on your laptop, but if you prioritize to determine what you can do during that three hour flight the time isn’t wasted. If you know that the coffee shop you will be in is loud, schedule your meeting for a time when you will have quiet and work on writing that proposal over a latte.
Are you spending an extra hour hyper-organizing or could you spend it doing something more productive? I think there needs to be a balance. At some point, there are diminishing returns for spending your time organizing and making things ‘just so’.
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