Your Sorting Hat: Direction and goals, notes for productivity and repurposing your time
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 22, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"You don't need to have a career goal right now.
Often, just choosing a direction is good enough."
II.
"If you try to be defensive and right in all workplace decisions
You will end up wrong more often!
To improve decision making at work, take more decisions
And learn to accept and then correct the wrong ones."
III.
"Can you use laziness to achieve team goals?
Design the workflow such that right actions take lesser effort than wrong ones."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Tiago Forte, productivity expert, focuses on creating a personal knowledge management system in his book - Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential:
"The three habits most important to your Second Brain include: Project Checklists: Ensure you start and finish your projects in a consistent way, making use of past work. Weekly and Monthly Reviews: Periodically review your work and life and decide if you want to change anything. Noticing Habits: Notice small opportunities to edit, highlight, or move notes to make them more discoverable for your future self...
...Your job as a notetaker is to preserve the notes you’re taking on the things you discover in such a way that they can survive the journey into the future. That way your excitement and enthusiasm for your knowledge builds over time instead of fading away."
Source: Book: Second Brain by Tiago Forte
II.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Professor of Medicine and pioneer of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), describes his work in - Full Catastrophe Living -
"Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness...
...Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking...
...Is there any waking moment of your life that would not be richer and more alive for you if you were more fully awake while it was happening?"
Source: Book: Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
1 Question
What can you stop doing to free up time?
Where in your life can you give that time for maximum impact?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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