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recent bookmarks from jerrykingBeing Busy Doesn't Make Us Happy or Productive2022-07-02T02:34:39+00:00
https://www.robertglazer.com/friday-forward/bs-busy/
jerryking>free time<< to come, it’s never going to happen. It’s about what you prioritize and how you use your time. Effective leaders know how to >>prioritize<< what’s most important.”
His words have stuck with me. Even though I still find the phrasing “I’ve been busy!” on the tip of my tongue when someone asks me how I’ve been, I make a conscious effort not to say it. I try and remind my team to do the same.
Instead of hopelessly waiting to be given the gift of more free time, consider what >>high-achievers<< do to stay >>focused<< and accomplish large, long-term goals [i.e. "and maximize their RoMTA"]. They:
1. Accept that time is a precious and fixed resource [i.e. = " time is your most valuable asset"]
2. Know how to separate Urgent from Important [i.e. = "Eisenhower Matrix"]
3. >>Align<< their top priorities with their core purpose and/or >>core values<<
4. Don’t book 100% of their time; they value rest & relaxation [i.e. = "buffering"/ "slack time"/"timeouts"]
5. Knowing what not to do and constantly look for things that they should >> stop doing <<
6. Are selective about the people they give their energy to [i.e. = "personal_energy"/"selectivity"]
Management guru Peter Drucker has said that effective leaders record [i.e.= "time tracking"] , manage and consolidate their time. If we were more >>accountable<< and >>honest<< with ourselves about our time and how we spend it, I think we’d all be far more effective and happier. Turns out, most people aren’t very accurate in recollecting how they spent their time in a given day or week.
When an important task isn’t getting done, it’s important to acknowledge and admit that you have chosen to spend your time on less important tasks (i.e. posting on Facebook and Instagram). Instead of saying “I didn’t have enough time,” try saying “I chose to do X today instead of Y” or “I’m getting >>distracted<<” or “I’m focusing on the wrong things.”
This honesty and accountability will help you use your time more wisely, accomplish more and be less “busy.”
Quote of the Week:
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
]]>accountability alignment attention attention_spans busy_work capped_priorities core_values discernment distractions Eisenhower_Matrix focus high-achieving non-renewable overwhelmed personal_productivity Peter_Drucker priorities purpose quotes record-keeping relentlessness Robert_Glazer selectivity self-discipline slack_time stop_doing time-management time_tracking time_is_your_most_valuable_asset timeouts urgency what_really_matters worthiness buffering RoMTA self-accountability self-honesty free_time what_not_to_dohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d02c0b81ed8b/What Should an Artist Save?2020-10-15T04:35:43+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/t-magazine/artist-archives.html
jerryking>sense of permanence<< as men, to consider their future on any grand scale.......THERE HAS ALWAYS been an overwhelming curiosity about the lives of artists. Giorgio Vasari’s 16th-century “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects” enumerated in exhaustive detail the biographies of various artists of the Italian Renaissance....We like to know an artist’s quirks, her penchants and proclivities when she isn’t sculpting marble or painting princes. The details that surround the creative instincts of an artist ....are captivating in themselves, facts we hope might illuminate the mystery of the artistic process.......The word “archive,” from the Latin archivum or archium, traces back to the Greek word arkheion, which referred both to the physical space where archival documents were stored as well as to the archons, or citizens, deputized to manage it. It is both the primary source, the literal remnants of what existed from a time and place, as well as the physical location where such documents are kept. Archives are unique to a person, to a government, to a period of history — no two are ever alike — and they are often available to browse but not necessarily open to the public like a library might be, nor are they reproduced or, in most cases, moved. Their purpose is almost more useful to grasp as an idea than as a practicality: Here lies everything we can’t remember but should never forget. Archives possess an inherent power — they are the authority on what or who will remain within the historical narrative.......There are two questions surrounding artists and their archives. Why do artists keep them? And what is worth keeping? Legacy and ego certainly play a part in answering the first question, as does an acute awareness of one’s mortality.....A growing desire by artists to preserve the context of an artwork alongside the work itself means a growing distrust of formal institutions (i.e. museums and galleries) which, driven by more commercial urge, might choose to collect only select pieces from their entire collection/catalogue.
The answer to the second question is more complicated......as art has entered various new, confounding mediums and the market has so inflated the value of work that artists can entertain ideas of their legacy, at least financially, on far more ambitious terms than they would have even 50 years ago — archives themselves have become a kind of competitive commodity. Saving early work or rejection letters is a rare feat of foresight bolstered by a healthy ego.....what we accept for the historical record has expanded over time to be more holistic than not. What we deem worth keeping now seems to include everything..... We value archives because we value the life that preceded them. But artists are not perfectly self-aware, and they owe neither us, nor posterity, an explanation for what they value or what they choose to ignore. What always remains is the work, and then the archive. For those of us who are left, we can only attempt to read between the lines.
]]>archives art artwork art_collections art_conservation artists culture_keepers curation ego legacies organizing_data preservation rejections sense_of_control women collectors cultural_heritage erasures heritage heritage_preservation historical_preservation sense_of_permanence worthiness posterityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b849e1837b33/Looking Death in the Face -2016-12-27T02:35:23+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/looking-death-in-the-face.html?ref=opinion
jerryking>Shelley’s<< >>poem<<, “>>Ozymandias<<,”, tells us, nothing remains of this pharaoh's works or of him, despite his status as the king of kings. All that remains is sand.
The poem’s message is >>perennial<<: All of this will be over soon, faster than you think. Fame has a shadow — inevitable >>decline<<. The year 2016 has delivered a string of deaths that serve as bracing reminders of this inevitability: Prince, Nancy Reagan, David Bowie, Elie Wiesel, Bill Cunningham, Muhammad Ali, Gordie Howe, Merle Haggard, Patty Duke, John Glenn....The year’s end is a time to take account of kingdoms built, but also the sheer rapidity of their destruction. It is a chance to ** come to terms with the existential fragility that is overlooked in most of our waking hours and that must be faced even by the greatest among us**....the scariest thing about death: coming to die only to discover, in Thoreau’s words, that we haven’t lived....Dying, of course, corresponds exactly with what we prefer to call living. This is what Samuel Beckett meant when he observed that we “give birth astride the grave.” It is an existential realization that may seem to be the province of the very sick or very old. The elderly get to watch the young and oblivious squander their days, time that they now recognize as incredibly precious [i.e. = "life is short"/"time is your most valuable asset"]....The trick to dying for something is picking the right something, day after week after precious year. And this is incredibly hard and decidedly not inevitable....]]>dying howto Egyptian_Empire history discernment overlooked perennial timeless poems decline mybestlife deaths Memento_mori fatalism worthiness Ozymandias time_is_your_most_valuable_asset Percy_Shelley life_is_shorthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d777962d5c8f/Being John Ibbitson2016-04-11T11:50:33+00:00
http://rrj.ca/being-john-ibbitson/
jerrykingJohn_Ibbitson questions worthiness public_policy columnists discernment think_threes 5_W’shttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cb435674037d/How to manage your time like a president - The Globe and Mail2015-06-02T02:41:50+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-tools/sb-how-to/how-to-manage-your-time-like-a-president/article24494130/
jerrykingDwight_Eisenhower time-management urgency priorities focus worthiness overreaction relentlessness overwhelmed discernment attention attention_spans self-discipline mercilessness Eisenhower_Matrix time_is_your_most_valuable_asset what_really_matters capped_priorities non-renewablehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:27faf256b56c/The Enduring Hunt for Personal Value - NYTimes.com2015-05-02T23:24:26+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/business/dealbook/the-enduring-hunt-for-personal-value.html?ref=business
jerrykingvalues self-respect Tony_Schwartz workplaces diminishing_returns addictions intrinsic_value self-worth single-minded_focus worthiness purposehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:77d454ff8a6b/Bark with bite2013-12-04T14:36:11+00:00
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/e8c7db08-4566-11e1-a719-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2mVyj0xRi
jerrykingHBR HBS marketing Theodore_Levitt feedback tough_love reminiscing advice worthiness sophisticated messiness primary_field_research John_Quelch discernment hand-holding worthwhile_problems myopic market-orientated product-orientated hard_problems serious_people redefining_the_markethttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cafa75699172/History Doesn't Follow the Rules2012-08-15T20:53:06+00:00
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pdMl4dRMAZwcrgvSRol8zXO-gMIyZMCJTCU4HlPm42I/edit
jerrykinghistory unpredictability humility seminal_moments historians worthiness journalists journalism revisionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1ace9db1b102/A Report to The Wall Street Journal's World-Wide Readers - WSJ.com2012-08-09T12:29:16+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1010538248832167360,00.html
jerrykingwsj 9/11 newspapers critical_thinking sophisticated worthiness discernment trivia selectivity thought-provoking trivialitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ac79c031038b/Deja Vu - WSJ.com2012-06-23T12:54:12+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117970580996209040-search.html
jerryking>annoy<< them in their daily lives. Mr. Yates, for example, seems to have found most commonplace devices excessively noisy....While Mr. Yates recorded most of his 2,100 inventions in no particular order, he did make a top-10 list that proves he wasn't a trivial thinker. His top-three needed inventions all concerned energy -- a way to transform energy into power with less waste, a more efficient way to store energy and better light bulbs.
Mr. Yates, a self-taught engineer, inventor and technical writer, tried to nudge other inventors in the right direction with his book, "2100 Needed Inventions." Published by Wilfred Funk Inc., Mr. Yates's book was a list of ways people could alleviate certain nuisances and defects of life and get rich for their trouble. "We often see clever and simple devices for sale which cause us to chastise ourselves with some such remark as, 'Why I could have thought of that years ago and made a lot of money with it!' Certainly you could have -- but you didn't."]]>inventors inventions criticism problem_solving critical_thinking negative_space worthiness frictions pain_points discernment unarticulated_desires worthwhile_problems personal_enrichment systematic_approaches inventiveness note_taking Cynthia_Crossen consciousness-shaped_interplay annoyanceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:42f5b0d55a7b/The Rhino Principle2012-06-22T16:03:43+00:00
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0130/031.html
jerrykinghistorians gtd indispensable worthiness signals noise discernment thinking_big judgment hard-charging priorities perseverance personal_accomplishments essentials relentlessness BHAGshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ca7fa79c1eed/A First Draft of History? - WSJ.com2012-05-17T13:45:11+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122702333240037413.html
jerrykingBret_Stephens journalism journalists critical_thinking history signals noise frictions pain_points worthiness countervailing storytelling seminal_moments wide-framing discernment origin_story historians consequential clichés worthwhile_problems saliencies first_drafts Cromwell’s_Law what_really_matters editorial_judgmenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d0968d609b59/Stop Looking for Ideas, Look for Problems to Grow Your Business - India Chief Mentor - WSJ2011-07-24T17:46:15+00:00
http://blogs.wsj.com/india-chief-mentor/2010/04/19/stop-looking-for-ideas-look-for-problems-to-grow-your-business/?KEYWORDS=RFID
jerrykinggrowth problem_solving pattern_recognition idea_generation problems challenges worthiness messiness uncharted_problems large_markets competition questions ideas assumptions criteria India pain_points discernment curiosity dissatisfaction opportunities inquisitiveness Michael_McDerment worthwhile_problems take_for_grantedhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c2ad4011c348/Follow successful investment managers, you'll learn from them2009-10-09T17:32:37+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/follow-successful-investment-managers-youll-learn-from-them/article738132/
jerrykingIra_Gluskin investment_advice Jeffrey_Rubin Gluskin_Sheff money_management wealth_management high_net_worth Toronto Bay_Street reading productivity howto economists investment_research equity_research research_analysts worthiness discernment smart_people luck investors self-discipline in_the_real_world amateur_ballhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1ccc96e0adf8/What are worthwhile problems: Feynman's moving letter2009-07-17T06:23:27+00:00
http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2008/03/what_are_worthwhile_problems_f.php
jerrykingproblems inspiration creativity advice worthiness uncharted_problems discernment Richard_Feynman worthwhile_problems atelic_activitieshttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0916f047fe60/