Today’s Bad Advice: there is no separation between work and life. It’s all “Life-Work”
I keep hearing people say ‘I dont have time for that” or “I get so busy with work I dont have time for myself” or something similar…but I think it’s bullshit.
There is no separation between work and life, and there shouldn’t be. Your brain doesn’t know how to keep work things separate from personal things, to your brain they are all THINGS, all IMPORTANT and all need to be DONE. So if your brain doesn’t make a distinction, then why should you?
Everything that you have to DO, want to DO, think about DOING, might DO someday / maybe…all of those things should be handled the same way: out of your head, into a system. Every call, every errand, every email…doesn’t matter why you need to do…just put them all into your “trusted system” and knock them out when you are doing like minded things.
For example: today’s calls list for me looked something like this:
- Call Client 1
- Call Client 2
- Call Book Keeper
- Call friend about Lakers game
- Call pharmacy to refill prescription
- Call Mom to confirm flight times
I made all of my calls from the car between meetings and I got them all done. Didn’t matter which were for work and which were personal, I got my “life-work” done in one fail swoop.
