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Manage episode 297617458 series 1341557
Treść dostarczona przez James Laws. Cała zawartość podcastów, w tym odcinki, grafika i opisy podcastów, jest przesyłana i udostępniana bezpośrednio przez James Laws lub jego partnera na platformie podcastów. Jeśli uważasz, że ktoś wykorzystuje Twoje dzieło chronione prawem autorskim bez Twojej zgody, możesz postępować zgodnie z procedurą opisaną tutaj https://pl.player.fm/legal.
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- [0:01:00] Episode Summary | Intro
- Most “Excitingest” Episode Ever?
-
- The Work Between the Work, Vacations, Etc.
- The Most Neglected Topic in Business
- Margins
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- Lots of managers and leaders don’t like to talk about pausing.
- We believe in margins so much that we’ve dedicated a third of our schedule to margins.
- Without an emphasis on Margin, Burnout is a very real danger.
- [0:05:10] It Doesn’t Always Take Active Work to Make Progress
- Margin can facilitate progress.
- We think of progress as linear, but that’s just not realistic.
-
- Progress has fits and starts.
- [0:07:59] Active Rest-- What is it? Why is it Necessary?
- You should be scheduling active rest into your calendar.
- You tend to lose focus on the importance of margin with age.
-
- Which emphasizes the need to make margins intentional.
- If you don’t fill your calendar, someone else will steal that time from you, and fill that time for you.
-
- Memorialize and protect your intentional disconnects.
- Is boredom the missing item in your workday toolkit?
-
- You have to find incremental ways to schedule margin into your schedule.
-
- You won’t come out the gate a detox/disconnect professional.
-
- Regardless, you have to treat margin like it’s business, to keep it secure and sacred from the infinite things that could or would detract from it.
- [0:14:25] If Possible...
- Try a Week Out of Office Per Quarter
- Start Each Day With a Plan
-
- Set aside planned time for others, whether that’s morning or afternoon.
-
- Bookend your day with margin.
- Be present with your thoughts.
- Attempt ‘Boredom & Margin Interval Training’
-
- You start with a lot of work time, and then gradually increase the margin and thought work time.
- The time away from active work makes you better and faster when it’s time to run.
- [0:19:50] People Who Have no Margin Are Stressed
- Having no margin will have an unintentional negative run-off on others.
- Everyone needs different amounts and types of margin.
- A lot of us think we need less margin than we actually do.
-
- Challenge: build in more margin into your schedule, and be retrospective about the effects.
- [0:22:43] How We Use Margin Intentionally in Our Business
- A tool for reflection.
- A tool to acknowledge what’s important today.
-
- The world changes so fast, and what was important mere weeks ago, may not be important today.
- Margin can be the gateway to progress, and therefore margin IS sometimes the work itself.
- Margin is a very real world tortoise and hare scenario.
-
- Don’t let the modern world trick you and your organization into being burnt out hares.
- Group Margin
-
- How we plan and execute margin together.
- [0:29:30] Parting Words
- Tips for making your margin and pauses more effective.
- Next time on AIB
- Recommended Reading: Seven Tips for Getting Unstuck - Ciircles
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Treść dostarczona przez James Laws. Cała zawartość podcastów, w tym odcinki, grafika i opisy podcastów, jest przesyłana i udostępniana bezpośrednio przez James Laws lub jego partnera na platformie podcastów. Jeśli uważasz, że ktoś wykorzystuje Twoje dzieło chronione prawem autorskim bez Twojej zgody, możesz postępować zgodnie z procedurą opisaną tutaj https://pl.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes
…
continue reading
- [0:01:00] Episode Summary | Intro
- Most “Excitingest” Episode Ever?
-
- The Work Between the Work, Vacations, Etc.
- The Most Neglected Topic in Business
- Margins
-
- Lots of managers and leaders don’t like to talk about pausing.
- We believe in margins so much that we’ve dedicated a third of our schedule to margins.
- Without an emphasis on Margin, Burnout is a very real danger.
- [0:05:10] It Doesn’t Always Take Active Work to Make Progress
- Margin can facilitate progress.
- We think of progress as linear, but that’s just not realistic.
-
- Progress has fits and starts.
- [0:07:59] Active Rest-- What is it? Why is it Necessary?
- You should be scheduling active rest into your calendar.
- You tend to lose focus on the importance of margin with age.
-
- Which emphasizes the need to make margins intentional.
- If you don’t fill your calendar, someone else will steal that time from you, and fill that time for you.
-
- Memorialize and protect your intentional disconnects.
- Is boredom the missing item in your workday toolkit?
-
- You have to find incremental ways to schedule margin into your schedule.
-
- You won’t come out the gate a detox/disconnect professional.
-
- Regardless, you have to treat margin like it’s business, to keep it secure and sacred from the infinite things that could or would detract from it.
- [0:14:25] If Possible...
- Try a Week Out of Office Per Quarter
- Start Each Day With a Plan
-
- Set aside planned time for others, whether that’s morning or afternoon.
-
- Bookend your day with margin.
- Be present with your thoughts.
- Attempt ‘Boredom & Margin Interval Training’
-
- You start with a lot of work time, and then gradually increase the margin and thought work time.
- The time away from active work makes you better and faster when it’s time to run.
- [0:19:50] People Who Have no Margin Are Stressed
- Having no margin will have an unintentional negative run-off on others.
- Everyone needs different amounts and types of margin.
- A lot of us think we need less margin than we actually do.
-
- Challenge: build in more margin into your schedule, and be retrospective about the effects.
- [0:22:43] How We Use Margin Intentionally in Our Business
- A tool for reflection.
- A tool to acknowledge what’s important today.
-
- The world changes so fast, and what was important mere weeks ago, may not be important today.
- Margin can be the gateway to progress, and therefore margin IS sometimes the work itself.
- Margin is a very real world tortoise and hare scenario.
-
- Don’t let the modern world trick you and your organization into being burnt out hares.
- Group Margin
-
- How we plan and execute margin together.
- [0:29:30] Parting Words
- Tips for making your margin and pauses more effective.
- Next time on AIB
- Recommended Reading: Seven Tips for Getting Unstuck - Ciircles
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