agitate educate organise
in 1999 i bought a personal organiser (palm Vx) from the Indigo Shop (i got it for £60 less than the high street with free delivery & leather wallet)
On telling my good friend denise cox [denisecox.net] that I had obtained a personal organiser, she asked me.
d_c. “does it work?”
bhg. “of course it works; its new!”
d_c. “no i mean does it work, are you more organised?”
the penny drops. nice one denise. i am the most disorganised person I know(i also write long paragraphs like this one). so why do i achieve so much. disorganised chaos. In 2006 a few things helped me continue my disorganised life. WebCal became standard in doop, I began to exclusively telework and I sampled collaborative document sharing via google docs. I get my news fix by RSS, I cut down my podcast subscriptions to the bear essentials, and I have almost cut out all TV except for motorised satellite feed searching, podcasts replaced my radio listening in 2005, and I don’t do gaming (never have). But all this help gives me more chances to say “yes” to people, when I should say “no”, also teleworking needs its discipline… but I will take a bit of indiscipline versus commuting.. I have worked out I am saving 20 days on zero commute, (24hr days or 60+ business days saved) thats TWELVE weeks a year for a 2 hour commuter. Attending meetings that are not via VOIP like real F2F meetings that aren’t sales, well to me that’s not commuting, its a travel expense… so if workers are in control of their business and can telework, then there is a 16% plus time bonus available.
So if I can realize the new time expansion what will I spend it on? “agitate educate organise” or more like organise, educate, agitate. to be continued.
January 7th, 2007 at 9:48 am
hi brian. my fav topic! (and what a memory you have - don’t remember that convo, but sounds like one we would definitely have had. LOL)i think what is adding to the organisational issues and feeling of chaos most of us have now is the sheer volume of information available and ready to be streamed into us.. .plus the new ability to interact ALL the time with peeps. often in real time.
my new year’s resolution is de-clutter. this means my house (keeping only what is beautiful or useful), my desk, my computer. and de-receive - this means my inbox, my feeds, my podcasts, what boards i’m on, what sites i visit, what networking internety type things i sign up for (e.g. Gather).
i love information. but there is so much of it available. and what i really think adds to all this is everywhere offers the ability to ‘interact’. post comments everywhere.
another de-clutter - less conversation and more action. dialogue everywhere. i noticed recently on People magazine and the DailyMail.co.uk both offered comment functionality on every single article. and let me tell you nothing posted added to the quality of life or resolved anything for me or i think anyone else reading it.
interesting to note how much time you saved by teleworking, conference calls etc. so now you have new time to organise
and i like what you propose to do with it.
denise