Last night I reported that I had spent all of my MPM time on organizing my office with the intent that it would make me more effective. I can already report that my effectiveness has improved. I can work at my desk, my computer key board has a place to sit flat when I type on it. Until yesterday, my desk had so many piles on it that there was no place for the keyboard-- it had to sit on one of the piles and every time I typed, the keyboard rocked. I was forever correcting mistakes resulting from an unstable key board.
In fact, I was so pleased with the progress in effectiveness that I spent my MPM time again today organizing my office. Please don't get the wrong idea here. At the beginning of boot camp we were advised not to spend time organizing and to get right out and do what we needed to do. This was good advice. Many times people have a fear of starting a new project and they will organize their papers and reorganize them, and analyze them, and shuffle them some more. They organize until the home of the fallen angels freezes over but they never start the project. This is not organizing, this is PROCRASTINATION.
In my case the disorganization which had been building up since the early 1980s had built up to a point that it just had to be dealt with. A comment to yesterdays blog referred to this as "old business". That's exactly what it is, and old business is exactly that--and now it is time to move on. I am sure some of you have some "old business" that is keeping you from moving forward in your MPM business. I was fortunate to have an angle come to my rescue. Perhaps we can be "angels" to each other. If anyone wants more information on how these angels work, please leave a comment after this blog. If there ever was a time us MPMers needed an angel it is now.
bzm: Yes, it is wonderful to be able to spend time organizing my office and it is even more wonderful to have an angel to help me do it. Congratulations on your commitment, perhaps I can be an angel for you.
Tom
2 comments:
Hi Tom,
Thank you for your post and giving additional information about your office space improvements. Good Job!
I'd be happy to have you be one of my earthly angels ;-). Thank you.
I would like to ask you to consider being an earthly angel to fella Boot Camper, Sandy. She follows your posts, and, a her new baby girl is almost arrived on this earthly plane. Here's her exact blog address:
http://worldchangersandyw.blogspot.com/
Today she addressed some issues that you referred to in your recent posts.
The other term they have for the dreaded "P" word is "saddling up" instead of "riding the horse". "P" has another relation: perfectionist; the p, I've read, often causes the P to exist. In Boot Camp you had to ride the horse or you would lose your position on the team. The team helped hold you accountable. And, it was okay to be imperfect, just so long as you did the actions that moved you towards your goals.
Your angel concept would be a gentle way to reinforce our own accountability to ourselves, and to our teams, and to our fellow MPMers; just like the concept of the Boot Campers teaming up over the Christmas Pause to help each other "stay on track".
It's a great idea, and one that causes me to think of your future, perhaps, as host if your own MPM Angel Accountability Blog Talk Radio Show ;-).
Thanks again, Tom, and, if you think of it, take a pix of yourself sitting at your clean desk. It's worth documenting this occasion and your feeling about its effect on your productivity. You may choose to post it here on your blog; or, you may choose to place it on your office wall near your goals or your vision board so that you can continually be inspired by "attending to old business" in a timely fashion so that your "now" is enjoyed and you're always ready to receive the "new business" as it comes to you.
Thank you, Tom.
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