Slack time
When you hire people, you try to hire good people. For most of us, the debate is about what good people means. Some of us…
How will you use your time?
A question for now, but not only for now.
What will you do with it? What will you change and how will you change it? What holes will you mend in which particular roof? What can you start?
Most days are a fire fight, with some blazing brighter than others.
But when you do get some slack time – when deadlines get pushed, when a space opens up in your day or week or year, when the fires cool, you have important choices.
Now no one’s clamouring, do this or this? Roof mending or new building?
Both.
Take the time to backstitch – do the things you know need doing but never shout for attention. Do them now, while there is no urgency. Good housekeeping.
And look to the horizon – have bigger thoughts and do something about them. Get excited.
Skippy strategy: Get excited.
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