You only need to have meetings when a need arises. Anything else is put aside for IF a need arises that instead becomes a discussion on what people are up to and not really discussing a need per se.

Take everything off, decline everything. Whoever comes back asking for you to be at the meeting, add those ones back in. Everything else leave out.

A Guideline is a set of suggestions for how you should approach solving a Problem. A Policy is a set of directives for how you must approach solving a problem. A Rule is a standard you must uphold when solving a problem. We say things are policies or rules but mostly they are guidelines if we dig deep and we have how more freedom then we think in how to approach solving a problem.

How many times do you open the package and throw out the instructions? I do all the time. But someone worked on them because they knew I was going to do things wrong right out of the gate. The ones I do read, they aren’t written in 6px fonts and folded over 17 times.  It’s akin to the person with the headache trying to understand the dosage they need to take.  They aren’t looking for…

The Grind is what we backdrop to when we aren’t sure what to do. It’s the work that is always there, that if we sit down or put on a timer that we would simply work through it. It’s the pile as high as a mountain that is higher than we wish that we are just waiting to see what will happen. It’s there, waiting to get done but because it’s not sexy, cool, or…