What’s the first thing you do?
If the first thing you did each day — the first act of work — was a symbol, a microcosm, a clue, a hint about how you spend your days … what would it tell you?
Here are some options.
Do you meditate?
Do you check your email?
Do you start on the Great Work project that you laid out on your desk the day before?
Do you run through your Getting Things Done process?
Do you connect with your week’s goals? Year’s goals? Life’s goals?
I know that the temptation I fight each morning is to check email, as if somehow believing that that’s the most important thing that I do.
Email for me can have the seduction of Good Work and occasionally the head-banging aggrevation of Bad Work… but it’s never Great Work.
And yet, if you measured my time, you’d think that answering email was one of my top strategic priorities.
=> What strategies do you use to lessen the relentless pull of email?
=> What strategies do you use to stay connected to your Great Work?
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Tags: Great Work, Strategies
