Author: Carl Setzer

One thing that often happens with me: odd hour wakefulness focused on organizing. Not out of any sense of anxiety, mind you. Rather, my brain comes alive with ideas. I find it amusing.

My current focus when it comes to personal organizing: realistic daily loads. I’ve been using what I’ll call a “day dump”. I throw most of my outstanding workload into “today”, then shift the un-done into tomorrow. That’s quite frustrating. It makes it look like little gets done. And organizing starts to take much longer, especially as time oases. Plus, when you scroll thru a huge task list, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.

I’m trying my best to build my task list into something that has a real chance of getting accomplished. Helps keep my main foci on page one, and not scroll around looking for sheet I should do next.

Spent all day yesterday learning how to generate leads using social media with Lori Ballen. Lots of good ideas, lots of things I want to implement over various projects. Though we had a real estate focus, the ideas are implementable across a wider array of sectors.

Learned tons, but haven’t had the chance to process it all. I’ll post more as soon add I make that time.

Let’s all agree to start using the “To:” line correctly.

Senders:

•  Put people in the “To” line who have action items, or are otherwise the direct focus of the email. E.g.: “Carl, please take care of this”…blah, blah. Use the “CC:” line for people on the email for informational purposes. 

Readers:

• Look in the address header to see where you fit in before you read. Then you’ll have a solid idea of whether you are being asked for information or action, or whether you’re being informed of a status, data, what-have-you.

 If we can all start following email 101, maybe we can de-confuse the world some.

Maybe…

https://twitter.com/aesthethica/status/287692133371109377

This troll’s comment gave me pause. What’s the best response? Public humiliation & shame? Just ignoring them? Gentle correction? Or???

I find it hard to sit silently when I witness cruelty, even as I recognize that response is exactly what the troll seeks. Certainly don’t want to reward deviant behavior. However, what’s effective?

Came up with a new word.

Gesticfoolcate – those bizarre gestures meant to intimidate but actually make you want to howl w/laughter. I mainly am thinking of those gangster poses.

Yep, the wonderful things that come out if my brain at 2:00 am.

Enjoy!

“When you wish to achieve results that have not been achieved before, it us am unwise fancy to think they can be achieved by methods that have been used before.”

– Sir Francis Bacon

It’s critical, then, to expand knowledge. Study areas and ideas unrelated to your focus. Only by expanding your understanding of the world can you grab new ways of looking at the problems we are attempting to solve.

A few thoughts for your Monday morning. May your week rock n’ roll and transform the world.