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Why Not All Urgent Tasks are Actually Urgent

On busy days, with increasing tasks and responsibilities, it seems like a no brainer to power through our to do list and get the majority of it done. This sounds helpful in theory, but in practice when our to-do list needs multiple days to be completed this is a recipe for burnout. An important thingContinue reading “Why Not All Urgent Tasks are Actually Urgent”

Test your Assumptions

#YoungProfessional As we go through our day we communicate and interact (even now virtually) with multiple stakeholders. These interactions happen often and rapidly, and since we can’t constantly ask people what they mean or how they feel about things, therefore we have to rely on inferences or assumptions we make. The issue though is, whatContinue reading “Test your Assumptions”

Check, and re-Check

Our topic today is a situation and suggestion for one of the daily challenges you may face as a young professional. When working with multiple teams and stakeholder, you will have to either share information and data or receive some. You will need to always re-check what was sent. Now as silly as this sounds,Continue reading “Check, and re-Check”

Have you rewarded yourself this year ?

In the spirit of the new year and its resolutions and the hustle culture and it’s productive days, I’d like to discuss the opposite, rewards. Those things we used to care about as kids and cry for, but now don’t even remember when was the last time we had one. (Do you?) Recently it seemsContinue reading “Have you rewarded yourself this year ?”

Beauty of the little things

As we all go through quite a difficult year, it’s been eye opening how important the little things that make our lives are (for me at least) and how in times of chronic stress that we cannot control (and barely manage) they can be anchors to making us feel ok. So in that spirit, belowContinue reading “Beauty of the little things”

The understatement of reliable workers

In a world where everyone aspires to be number one, what about the rest ? The importance of employees number 2 to 200 or even 2000. How reliable workers, employees, and people are the glue of our societies. Innovation is important, but if there’s no one to execute on that innovation it’s pointless. You mayContinue reading “The understatement of reliable workers”

Introduction

So, you know that scene in a movie where the side character starts to panic and says they did not sign up for this ? Well, hi that’s me, except it’s real life here. For a while I’ve felt that my life has side tracked from where I’ve intended to be and so in aContinue reading “Introduction”