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Becoming You: Get Time on Your Side – One Simple Rule and Question

 

 

 I intend to post about time management from time to time (pardon the pun!), and I’ll call this series of posts “Get Time on Your Side”.  Let’s start the series just in time for new year’s resolution season!

 

 

One of my favorite ways to manage time more effectively is to employ what I call One Simple Rule and Question.  Just live your life by the simple rule below, and when deciding whether to do something, ask yourself the simple question.

 

 

Simple Rule:  Choose activities based on your goals, mission, or purpose in life.  Don’t know your mission?  Write your own mission statement ASAP!

 

 

Simple Question:  Will this activity move me in the direction I want to go in life?  If the answer is no, don’t do it!

 

 

What do you think?  What’s your overall approach or strategy for time management?  Feel free to share your ideas in the Comments section. 

 

Wishing you a happy and peaceful new year!

What's Your Favorite...?: Stephen Geary Loves to Make ‘Em Laugh

 

 

In this series of posts, friends, family, colleagues, and network connections answer one question about their favorite something.  In each post, the favorite question, as well as the person who answers it, varies.

 

 

Up this week is Stephen Geary.  Stephen and I met nearly a decade ago – he and I were both training specialists at Delaware Investments, and today we are good friends.  He is a stand-up comedian in his spare time.  I asked him this question.

 

 

What’s your favorite thing about being a stand-up comedian?

 

 

Stephen’s Answer:  My favorite thing about being a stand-up comic, as some of your readers might have guessed, is simply making people laugh.  It’s almost too obvious, but the fact is that when a group of people is laughing together, there’s nothing but happiness in the room.  People aren’t thinking about the issues or the day (unless it’s what the comedian is joking about), and they’re not thinking about the challenges they face personally.  They’re in a room full of other laughing people who have also left their problems at the door for the duration of the show.  It’s like church, but with lots of curse words...

 

 

Thanks for sharing, Stephen!  You can contact Stephen at sag1015@gmail.com.

 

 

Now it’s your turn to answer the question – what’s your favorite thing about making others laugh?  Post your reply in the Comments section.  I look forward to your replies, and if you or someone you know would like to share a favorite, please contact me!