Sunday, June 14, 2009

Jun 14 1:59 pm
“… whereas the skills needed for successful B2B ad sales revolve around issues like being able to sleep on airplanes, schmoozing with advertisers, speaking at panels, and other soft-skills”

yup

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Jun 14 4:14 pm
jakelodwick: This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability. Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure. Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00 One 3-hour creative block One 1-hour book reading block They are pretty ‘low’ standards. The question is, “Even with low standards, am I disciplined enough to stick with a plan for a whole week?” — If yes, next week it may evolve into a slightly more demanding form. I will post the first week’s result here, next Sunday night. By then, there should be twenty-one check marks on there. Do you think I will get a perfect score? Great idea, Jakob. I’m gonna try this (sans meals, which I don’t care about), too.

jakelodwick:

This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability.

Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure.

  • Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00
  • One 3-hour creative block
  • One 1-hour book reading block

They are pretty ‘low’ standards. The question is, “Even with low standards, am I disciplined enough to stick with a plan for a whole week?” — If yes, next week it may evolve into a slightly more demanding form.

I will post the first week’s result here, next Sunday night. By then, there should be twenty-one check marks on there. Do you think I will get a perfect score?

Great idea, Jakob. I’m gonna try this (sans meals, which I don’t care about), too.

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