I just finished suffering through an almost pointless meeting.
Happens all the time, actually. In fact, it happens all the time for most of us. So why is that? Why do we continue to spend so much time in meetings we all know are useless?
Today during the meeting, prior to paper-cutting my wrists with the meeting agenda, I did some figuring. I tried to figure out what that meeting was costing us, simply based on hourly rates based on salaries of the people in the room. I came up with $210 for this one-hour meeting (and that only accounts for people on my side of the conference call).
That’s not astounding, but it’s only four people. You can see where this can get out-of-hand quickly.
I read several posts last week about not phoning it in during that week between Christmas and New Year’s. Like this one from Chris Brogan, this one from Jen Fong and this one from Christopher S. Penn.
That was completely my plan, too. I freakin’ love being at the office during the week. Mostly because no one else is there. It’s a great week for finalizing plans, catching up, cleaning up and thinking. And all that with no meetings and few interruptions.
But it didn’t happen that way.
Instead, my wife got sick. Which meant I had to pinch-hit in taking care of our two-year-old hellion. It amounted in a day in the office on Monday, home Tuesday and Wednesday, back in the office on Thursday, and then off on Friday through Saturday.
Chasing greatness can be overwhelming. Pursuing the title of “the best” can be downright paralyzing.
And for some reason, we tend to over-compete with our marketing skills when it’s not even intended to be a competition.
So give yourself a break and just make sucking less your goal.
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