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This short series is from a presentation on preparing for the new year and ending strong. These times are always good for reviewing and making adjustments to become better in the year ahead.
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[Music] cleaning up now this is like i said people don't think about it as much but there are a lot of things that it makes sense to sort of look at as you get to the end of the year in the beginning of the year uh one and sort of clean stuff up simplify is is always useful if you can simplify your life you'd be amazed at how much that helps your reduction of stress in general joy uh one of them the obvious ones i guess is maybe there's some subscriptions or monthly fees or something like that or you know things that you're sending money out to that you need to stop maybe you uh like for example maybe you moved in the last year and there was a gym that was you know that's now an hour away that you have you know you've got a membership to and you don't need to anymore maybe you want to you know just get a membership at a closer gym or maybe you've realized that in the cobin stuff you weren't able to go to your gym and now you've got other ways that you you set yourself up to exercise differently and so you don't need that membership uh maybe there's a certain for example let's say we're changing our dietary stuff maybe i had some sort of a you know a coffee of the month club or something at my local starbucks or panera or one of those kind of places where you subscribed or or spent money to some sort of a membership where you got you know discounts on your your meals or things like that that you don't use and maybe you have an amazon prime membership and you haven't used amazon any year things like that maybe those are some tools or services that you used in the past it's time to stop them are there is a classic for i.t related people are there backups that you need to take is there work that you've done in the last year that is not properly backed up do you need to maybe have a safety deposit box or something like that do you need off-site storage of certain certificates or backups of them are there photocopies you need to make are there you know pictures you need to take things like that this is a good time to do it you know you've got this this time to say oh yeah i've got a little bit of time that's my own and here's something i need to make sure that i have uh you know secure or backed up are there some tasks that you started this year that in this last little run that it makes sense to just go ahead and bite the bullet and finish them as opposed to them dragging into the year ahead you know there's sometimes we have things that are feel like they are always 80 or 90 complete maybe now is the time to say all right i'm gonna just knuckle down and complete this thing so i can check it off my list for good get it out of my hair it may be that you know and maybe there's that room that you need to paint that you got halfway started and it's been half painted for the last year and so let's go ahead and just i'm just going to get it done and then i can you know clean up and be done with it what about your schedule i think that's a good thing to look at is are there regular recurring things that you do that it makes sense to stop doing that uh maybe you meet with a certain person every week and that's been rescheduled 15 different times and so well let's just take it off the schedule and punt um you know maybe it's too full maybe there's you look at it and you're just exhausted at the end of every day or at the end of every week and maybe there's some things that you need to examine with a little more critical eye and drop out of your schedule simplify things uh you know maybe it's sort of that same thought is maybe there's things that you need to stop or contribute less time to you know maybe there's say for example maybe you're doing you've been doing a blog for the last year and you were spending two hours a day five days a week on it and it's just too exhausting so maybe instead of because maybe you're putting on a blog post every day you know monday through friday and now you say you know what i can do what i need to do i can accomplish by turning out maybe one vlog a week instead of five and reduce that you know two hours a day to two hours once a week something like that you know maybe something or and it may just be that it wasn't as uh you know profitable or rewarding as you thought it was going to be so stop or do it less so that it fits your needs better all of these are those clean up kind of things assessing where we're at and what is on our plate and maybe there's some things we need to take off of our plate a couple of years ago i think it was i don't think it was last year it was two or three years ago we had this thing called we had a presentation and introduced the spark idea which is getting started into your next year as far as resolutions are concerned and goals and things like that and i wanted to just come back and revisit that because it's a good time to just think about it spark was a you know one of those nice little words to try to get us going and the s there is setting stuff setting the table set immediate short and long term goals as we're getting into this next year as we're going to january we have new year's resolutions which are usually you know annual things we want to do instead of having these big you know big hairy goals that we have break them down into something that is more a bite-sized chunk so have something that is you know a goal that you're going to reach you can reach today or tomorrow for you know essentially immediately and then maybe some short-term stuff what is something i want to i'm going to try to chain together some of these immediate goals and and accomplish something at the end of the month or the end of the week even and then what you know what are the long-term goals if i do these things where should i be a month from now a quarter from now two quarters from now halfway through the year or the end of next year and then with those put the plan together that's your p i'm going to plan i'm going to find out where i need to schedule these things what do i need to do to get things in motion to try to achieve those immediate short and long term goals and then with that you know one now we want to avoid is i've got my my plan in place i need to avoid scope creep i need to stick to my plan and not grow it and change it in a way that maybe will make it less likely to succeed and then looking ahead the r is removed i want to remove any obstacles what are things that will block me from getting that done for example the accountability thing maybe i need to maybe i get my own way so i need to involve some other people to poke me on a regular basis and provide that accountability so that i keep moving forward or maybe there's other tasks that distract me on a regular basis that i need to stop or address those first so they are a non-issue and then the k is keep keep your focus is which should you know going back to the s if you have immediate short term goals so you have these things that are on your radar on a regular basis hopefully those allow you to keep focused and keep moving forward and particularly if you're avoiding scope creek but that's key is like you get into that that rhythm and get that momentum built and then allow it to build some have some weight essentially and some heft that keeps you moving forward and so that you're you know contending on those immediate short and long term goals that you're meeting and maybe even succeeding them so what do we learn in this little presentation as we look at the year that's gone by and we look at what our goals are i think all of us are going to say see that there is plenty of work we can do we can we are not done becoming better developers and even more so better people and where we need to be or where we want to be what we want to accomplish in life along with this life is more than work you know it's not just business and career there is there's health there are relationships there's financial stuff there's all these other things that bring us quality of life and bring us enjoyment and keep us healthy and keep us from just burning ourselves out and when we're looking at these kind of times it's important to realize that preparing can make life much much easier it is just so difficult at times to do things at the last minute i don't know how many times where it's you know you wait to the last minute it's like oh i've got to get a b and c done and you don't realize until you start doing those that oh by the way there's this other thing now there's d that also has to be done and gosh i could have gotten that done a week ago if i just thought about it so planning and preparing for some of those big things assessing them a little bit beforehand looking at what needs to be done sometimes can allow us to get things done much easier it may even be the difference between success and failure and then the other thing is through these items take some advantages of timing and planning so maybe we can save the time invested in something or the the pain and stress involved or the actual financial cost maybe timing can sometimes very very big you know if you buy at the right time or if you invest at the right time the the value to get out you get out of that is much greater because the related costs are less for example you know during these down times if you've got free time where you could be re-watching you know friends episodes or be doing something for that doesn't cause you stress but does save time in the future then you know maybe you didn't need to see the friends episode for the eighth time in a row there's some of those kinds of things to think about and use those to you know properly position yourself to be successful uh in the days weeks in the year ahead questions and comments uh probably my question will be like how do you manage um like let me say when procrastination kicks into your head whereby you're trying to put up something and maybe you there is something more important like how do you balance this out like with limited targets and goals and maybe something that is needed like in your own business um a lot of it comes down to priorities um is is making sure and it's because this is where that planning and scheduling helps did you look at stuff and say okay if i've got these goals and and looking at them i i'm going to say this you know if i've got these five goals well maybe this one goal is much more important so i'm gonna have a higher priority for it than these other goals and then it's it's basically it's a top-down approach so i can take those let's say i've got five goals go to the number one priority and look at what's required for it schedule things out and then i go to the number the second one and then what's required and schedule things out if i get to a point where my schedule is too full before i get to those items then i'm gonna have to make some adjustments otherwise you know let's say i can i can schedule all those things in then the key is to be able to maintain those and also if something comes up that's an emergency as i sort of go in reverse order so you know if i have to drop something off uh or you know it has to stop on my schedule this week because and had car repairs to do or so life happened then i go to the less priority stuff and say okay well that's the thing that i'm going to uh essentially you know use the time i was going to work on that fifth priority thing instead that time is going to this emergency or maybe it's you know the top or the bottom three priority items i i'm not going to get to those this week but keeping that that focus or that list of here are the things that i need here the things that i want and hear things that are nice to have and being able to sort of schedule those in and and be in a position that i have taken some of the the first steps and laid the groundwork to get those things done usually will allow me to uh it gives me some buffer basically is built in so that when things happen that are distractions or take away from those those things that i really want to get done at least i've got some buffer that can help absorb that and allow me to continue momentum even with all that life has to to throw at me so that i've i've got it planned out already in ways that i can keep things moving forward they have momentum so i don't end up a situation where a couple things occur now i have to stop something dead in its tracks and i come back you know a few days later a week later or whatever it is and have to restart and get that momentum going forward instead i've been able to carry it forward all the way through and maybe not at the weight that i wanted to maybe i wanted to give an hour a day to my number one priority but because of how things worked out i was only to get able to give 15 minutes a day for the last you know month on that that's okay because yeah i'm not as far along as i want to be but at least i was continuing to keep that ball moving forward does that make sense yes it does so do you like uh sometimes let me base this on it like you sometimes like let me say uh you're working on something which is very important and then a production issue now crops up do you okay production issue for instance it would be an emergency so you finish up that whereby let me say you had scheduled let me say eight hours to work today do you like sometimes have to walk like extra whereby you kind of lose uh is i mean the site of whatever you're supposed to stick to in the day yeah sometimes it does uh that's why for me about the higher priority things typically i'm gonna tackle first um or the things that well it's combination the things that are higher priority that i really want to make some sort of progress on them i'm more likely to do those early in the day before things possibly could go wrong and also i'm going to make sure that i'm doing those on a regular basis enough so that if i have a day where i have to cut it short or not get to it at all at least i did it yesterday and i'll work on it again tomorrow if i you know if i've had this emergency that comes up and that may shift my priorities a little bit so maybe there's something that i'm gonna do an hour a day on it and i lost in the last week i had production issues and wasn't able to get to it so maybe when i come back uh you know maybe and maybe i will still spend a little time over the weekend but you know maybe when i come back monday instead i'm gonna i'm gonna focus in the week ahead to do two or three hours a day on it for a couple of days to essentially catch up or to you know give some of that time back and maybe that's not feasible so maybe that i just have to go back to my one hour a day but at least i was working on that along the way you know up until this week where i had production issues and i'll start back next week and yeah it's a little bit of an adjustment but at least again i've been making that steady progress so that it and hopefully i've built some buffer in so that um really i could have gotten where i needed to be on 45 minutes a day instead of an hour a day i i had a little more built in so i was ahead of the game and it is basically a again it's one of those things it's an accountability thing so that once you get burned by production issues enough you make some adjustments you say all right i'm going to get further ahead on this i'm not going to allow it to wait till last minute because that's usually when you you know you struggle as you wait to last minute and that's inevitably when you also have some other unforeseen emergency occur and now you're you're really you know in trouble if you're aiming to get something done by december 31st you want it done by december 31st and instead you aim to get it done by october 15th then you've built in to your schedule that hey i can i can have some setbacks and still you know be on track does that help yes he does thank you excellent any other questions or comments yeah one thing i'd like to add so one of the things you're talking about you know declutter things of that nature i find it's helpful at the end of the year to take a look around my office and find like all the scraps of paper notes things like i have and organize all that into like one place that way i'm not so scattered going into the next year forgetting things i mean it's good to do like you know on a weekly you know maybe daily basis but it's usually good at the end of the year to just kind of take stock with everything you've got around you what's in your environment just kind of organize it a little bit too yeah that's actually that's an excellent point and it's this one i really didn't touch on is that um a lot of times it makes sense to sort of you go into the new year particularly if you take a you know like we do a lot of times you take a year a year a week or two off so you have sort of a really a hard divider between this year and next year where it can be a great time to say all right i'm going to take all of my notes or my documents from the last year and put them into a you know like in this case a 2021 folder and now i'm going to be in position so i'll have i don't have all of that stuff i have last year's stuff and i'll have you know this year's stuff i do that for example development or usually as i get into the end of the years i get the last couple of things in i'll take our uh latest recordings and create a folder for like right in this example i'll create a 2021 folder and i'll push all of our recordings in the last year into the 2021 folder and sort of simplify that that you know that main folder so now it won't have anything in it until we start doing the 2022 presentations and do that stuff for you know weekly status uh filing like i said there may be notes that it just makes sense that i've got all of these work notes that i'm gonna i've got a folder that i put them in and i say hey here's the 2021 notes so i start with a little bit of a sort of like a clean slate moving forward so that's a that's an excellent point to make is that there's those are little things that we can do that may help us simplify and be more organized as we start the year ahead it just gives us a little more opportunity to to start on the right foot so great point all right so as always well thank you for the time for listening for reviewing this uh if you have any other questions or anything like that you can always reach us at info developer.com through email we have a contact us form on developerwork.com um out on twitter you can get us at developer you can see what's going on there we have our youtube channel there's a link in the show notes or you can go out to youtube if you search the developer nor you will find it you just have to make sure you spell it right without uh it's the d-e-v-e-l-p-r-e-n-e-u-r and you'll find it out there we've got multiple channels we've got now occurred two years into stuff so we've probably got uh got a hundred maybe 200 little 15 to 25 minute typically uh things out there covering a wide range of topics including this year we did react react native uh python python certification got a lot of good stuff that's starting to build up there you can find the uh some of you can find sliced up versions of mentor presentations out there you can also find the full version of them if you want the you know the typically one hour presentation you find out on vimeo we've got a developer channel there and we do still have a developing our facebook page that we get stuff posted to from time to time if you want to contact us there as always we're just continuing you know we've got another year down i'm trying to make every developer better and we're going to keep working on building better developers in the year ahead thanks a lot have a good day you
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[Music]
cleaning up
now this is
like i said people don't think about it
as much but there are a lot of things
that it makes sense to sort of look at
as you get to the end of the year in the
beginning of the year
uh one and sort of clean stuff up
simplify is is always useful if you can
simplify your life you'd be amazed at
how much that helps your reduction of
stress in general
joy
uh one of them
the
obvious ones i guess is maybe there's
some subscriptions or
monthly fees or something like that or
you know things that you're sending
money out to that you need to stop
maybe you
uh
like for example maybe you moved in the
last year and there was a gym that was
you know that's now an hour away that
you have you know you've got a
membership to and you don't need to
anymore maybe you want to you know just
get a membership at a closer gym or
maybe you've realized that in the cobin
stuff you weren't able to go to your gym
and now you've got other ways that you
you set yourself up to exercise
differently and
so you don't need that membership
uh maybe there's a certain
for example let's say we're changing our
dietary stuff maybe i had some sort of a
you know a coffee of the month club or
something at my local starbucks or
panera or one of those kind of places
where you subscribed or
or spent money to some sort of a
membership where you got you know
discounts on your your meals or things
like that that you don't use and maybe
you have an amazon prime membership and
you haven't used amazon any year
things like that maybe those are
some tools or services that you used in
the past it's time to stop them
are there is a classic for i.t related
people are there backups that you need
to take is there work that you've done
in the last year that is not properly
backed up
do you need to maybe have a safety
deposit box or something like that do
you need off-site storage of
certain certificates or backups of them
are there photocopies you need to make
are there
you know pictures you need to take
things like that
this is a good time to do it you know
you've got this this time to say oh yeah
i've got a little bit of time that's my
own
and
here's something i need to make sure
that i have uh you know secure or backed
up
are there some tasks that you started
this year that in this last little run
that it makes sense to just go ahead and
bite the bullet and finish them
as opposed to them dragging into the
year ahead you know there's sometimes we
have things that are
feel like they are always 80 or 90
complete
maybe now is the time to say all right
i'm gonna just knuckle down and complete
this thing so i can
check it off my list for good get it out
of my hair
it may be that
you know and maybe there's that room
that you need to paint that you
got halfway started and it's been half
painted for the last year and so let's
go ahead and just i'm just going to get
it done
and then i can you know clean up and be
done with it
what about your schedule i think that's
a good thing to look at is are there
regular recurring
things that you do
that it makes sense to stop doing that
uh maybe you meet with a certain person
every week and that's
been rescheduled 15 different times and
so well let's just take it off the
schedule and punt
um you know maybe it's too full maybe
there's you look at it and you're just
exhausted at the end of every day or at
the end of every week
and maybe there's some things that you
need to examine with a little more
critical eye and drop out of your
schedule
simplify things
uh you know maybe it's
sort of that same thought is maybe
there's things that you need to stop
or contribute less time to
you know maybe there's
say for example maybe you're doing
you've been doing a blog for the last
year
and you were spending
two hours a day five days a week on it
and it's just
too exhausting so maybe instead of
because maybe you're putting on a blog
post every day you know monday through
friday and now you say you know what i
can do
what i need to do i can accomplish by
turning out maybe one vlog a week
instead of five
and
reduce that you know two hours a day to
two hours once a week something like
that you know maybe something or and it
may just be that it wasn't as
uh you know profitable or
rewarding as you thought it was going to
be so stop
or do it less
so that it fits your needs better
all of these are those clean up kind of
things assessing where we're at
and what is on our plate and maybe
there's some things we need to take off
of our plate
a couple of years ago
i think it was i don't think it was last
year it was two or three years ago
we had this thing called
we had a presentation and introduced the
spark idea
which is
getting started into your next year as
far as resolutions are concerned and
goals and things like that and i wanted
to just come back and revisit that
because it's a good time to just think
about it
spark was a you know one of those nice
little words to try to get us going
and the s there is setting stuff
setting the table set immediate short
and long term goals as we're getting
into this next year as we're going to
january we have new year's resolutions
which are usually you know annual things
we want to do
instead of having these big
you know big hairy goals that we have
break them down into something that is
more a bite-sized chunk so have
something that is you know a goal that
you're going to reach
you can reach today or tomorrow
for you know essentially immediately
and then maybe some short-term stuff
what is something i want to i'm going to
try to chain together some of these
immediate goals and and accomplish
something at the end of the month or the
end of the week even
and then what you know what are the
long-term goals if i do these things
where should i be
a month from now a quarter from now two
quarters from now halfway through the
year or the end of next year and then
with those
put the plan together that's your p i'm
going to plan i'm going to find out
where i need to schedule these things
what do i need to do
to get things in motion to
try to achieve those immediate short and
long term goals and then with that you
know one now we want to avoid is
i've got my my plan in place i need to
avoid scope creep
i need to stick to my plan
and not grow it and change it in a way
that maybe will make it less likely to
succeed
and then looking ahead the r is removed
i want to remove any obstacles what are
things that will
block me from getting that done for
example the accountability thing maybe i
need to
maybe i get my own way
so i need to involve some other people
to poke me on a regular basis and
provide that accountability so that i
keep moving forward
or maybe there's other tasks that
distract me on a regular basis that i
need to stop or
address those first so they are
a non-issue
and then the k is keep keep your focus
is
which should
you know going back to the s if you have
immediate short term goals so you have
these things that are
on your radar on a regular basis
hopefully those allow you to keep
focused and keep moving forward
and particularly if you're avoiding
scope creek but
that's key is like you get into that
that rhythm and get that momentum built
and then allow it to build some
have some weight essentially and some
heft that keeps you moving forward
and
so that you're you know contending on
those immediate short and long term
goals that you're meeting and maybe even
succeeding them
so what do we learn in this little
presentation
as we look at the year that's gone by
and we look at what our goals are i
think all of us are going to say see
that there is plenty of work we can do
we can
we are not done becoming better
developers and even more so better
people and where we need to be or where
we want to be what we want to accomplish
in life
along with this life is more than work
you know it's not just business and
career there is there's health there are
relationships there's financial stuff
there's all these other things
that
bring us quality of life and bring us
enjoyment and keep us healthy
and keep us
from just burning ourselves out
and when we're looking at these kind of
times it's important to realize that
preparing
can make life much much easier
it is just so difficult at times to do
things at the last minute i don't know
how many times where it's you know you
wait to the last minute it's like oh
i've got to get
a b and c done
and you don't realize until you start
doing those that oh by the way there's
this other thing now there's d that also
has to be done and gosh i could have
gotten that done a week ago if i just
thought about it
so planning and preparing
for some of those big things assessing
them a little bit beforehand looking at
what needs to be done sometimes can
allow us to get things
done much easier it may even be the
difference between success and failure
and then the other thing is
through these items take some advantages
of timing and planning so maybe we can
save
the time invested in something or the
the pain and stress involved or the
actual financial cost
maybe timing can sometimes very very big
you know if you buy at the right time or
if you invest at the right time
the
the value to get out you get out of that
is much greater because the related
costs are less
for example you know during these down
times if you've got free time where you
could be
re-watching
you know friends episodes or be doing
something for that doesn't cause you
stress but does save time in the future
then you know maybe you didn't need to
see the friends episode for the eighth
time in a row there's some of those
kinds of things to think about
and use those to
you know properly position yourself to
be successful
uh in the days weeks in the year ahead
questions and comments
uh probably my question will be like how
do you manage um
like let me say when procrastination
kicks into
your head whereby you're trying to put
up something and maybe you there is
something more important like how do you
balance this out like
with limited targets
and goals and maybe something that is
needed
like in your own business
um a lot of it comes down to priorities
um
is is making sure and it's because this
is where that planning and
scheduling helps
did you look at stuff and say okay if
i've got these goals
and and looking at them i
i'm going to say this you know if i've
got these five goals well maybe this one
goal is much more important so i'm gonna
have a higher priority for it than these
other goals
and then it's it's basically it's a
top-down approach so i can take those
let's say i've got five goals
go to the number one priority
and look at what's required for it
schedule things out
and then i go to the number the second
one and then what's required and
schedule things out if i get to a point
where my schedule is too full before i
get to those items then
i'm gonna have to make some adjustments
otherwise you know let's say i can i can
schedule all those things in
then the key is to be able to maintain
those and also if something comes up
that's an emergency as i sort of go in
reverse order so you know if i have to
drop something off
uh or you know it has to stop on my
schedule this week because
and
had car repairs to do or so life
happened
then i go to the less priority stuff and
say okay well that's the thing that i'm
going to
uh essentially you know use the time i
was going to work on that fifth priority
thing
instead that time is going to this
emergency or maybe it's you know the top
or the bottom three priority items i i'm
not going to get to those this week
but keeping that
that focus or that list of here are the
things that i need
here the things that i want
and hear things that are nice to have
and being able to sort of schedule those
in and and be in a position that i have
taken some of the
the first steps and laid the groundwork
to get those things done
usually will allow me to
uh
it gives me some buffer basically is
built in so that when things happen that
are distractions or take away from those
those things that i really want to get
done
at least i've got some buffer that can
help absorb that
and allow me to continue momentum
even with
all that life has to to throw at me so
that i've i've got it planned out
already in ways that i can keep things
moving forward they have momentum so i
don't end up a situation where a couple
things occur now i have to stop
something dead in its tracks and i come
back you know a few days later a week
later or whatever it is and have to
restart and get that momentum going
forward
instead i've been able to carry it
forward all the way through
and maybe not at the weight that i
wanted to maybe i wanted to give an hour
a day to my number one priority
but because of how things worked out i
was only to get able to give 15 minutes
a day for the last you know month on
that
that's okay because yeah i'm not as far
along as i want to be
but at least i was continuing to keep
that ball moving forward
does that make sense
yes it does
so do you like uh sometimes
let me base this on it like you
sometimes like let me say
uh you're working on something which is
very important
and then
a production issue now crops up
do you okay production issue for
instance it would be an emergency so you
finish up that whereby let me say you
had scheduled let me say eight hours to
work today
do you like sometimes have to walk
like extra whereby you kind of lose
uh is i mean the site of
whatever you're supposed to stick to in
the day
yeah sometimes it does uh that's why for
me about the higher priority things
typically i'm gonna tackle first
um or the things that well it's
combination the things that are higher
priority that i really want to make some
sort of progress on them i'm more likely
to do those early in the day before
things possibly could go wrong
and also
i'm going to make sure that i'm doing
those on a regular basis enough so that
if i have a day where
i have to cut it short or not get to it
at all
at least i did it yesterday and i'll
work on it again tomorrow
if i you know if i've had this emergency
that comes up and that may shift my
priorities a little bit so maybe there's
something that
i'm gonna do an hour a day on it and i
lost in the last week i had production
issues
and wasn't able to get to it so maybe
when i come back
uh you know maybe and maybe i will still
spend a little time over the weekend but
you know maybe when i come back monday
instead i'm gonna i'm gonna focus in the
week ahead to do two or three hours a
day on it for a couple of days to
essentially catch up
or to you know give some of that time
back
and maybe that's not feasible so maybe
that i just have to go back to my one
hour a day but at least i was working on
that along the way you know up until
this week where i had production issues
and i'll start back next week
and yeah it's a little bit of an
adjustment but at least again i've been
making that steady progress so that it
and hopefully i've built some buffer in
so that
um
really i could have gotten where i
needed to be on 45 minutes a day instead
of an hour a day
i i had a little more built in so i was
ahead of the game
and it is basically a
again it's one of those things it's an
accountability thing
so that once you get burned by
production issues enough
you make some adjustments you say all
right i'm going to get further ahead on
this
i'm not going to allow it to wait till
last minute because that's usually when
you you know you struggle as you wait to
last minute and that's inevitably when
you also have some other unforeseen
emergency occur
and now you're you're really you know in
trouble if you're
aiming to get something done by december
31st you want it done by december 31st
and instead you aim to get it done by
october 15th
then you've built in to your schedule
that hey i can i can have some setbacks
and still
you know be on track
does that help
yes he does thank you
excellent
any other questions or comments
yeah one thing i'd like to add so one of
the things you're talking about you know
declutter things of that nature
i find it's helpful at the end of the
year to take a look around my office and
find like all the scraps of paper notes
things like i have and organize all that
into like one place that way i'm not so
scattered going into the next year
forgetting things
i mean it's good to do like you know
on a weekly you know maybe daily basis
but it's usually good at the end of the
year to just kind of take stock with
everything you've got around you what's
in your environment just kind of
organize it a little bit too
yeah that's actually that's an excellent
point and it's this one i really didn't
touch on is that
um a lot of times it makes sense to sort
of you go into the new year particularly
if you take a you know like we do a lot
of times you take a year a year a week
or two off
so you have sort of a
really a hard divider between this year
and next year where it can be a great
time to say all right i'm going to take
all of my notes or my documents from the
last year
and put them into a you know like in
this case a 2021 folder and now
i'm going to be in position so i'll have
i don't have all of that stuff
i have last year's stuff and i'll have
you know this year's stuff
i do that for example development or
usually as i get into the end of the
years i get the last couple of things in
i'll take our uh latest
recordings and create a folder for like
right in this example i'll create a 2021
folder and i'll push all of our
recordings in the last year
into the 2021 folder and sort of
simplify that
that you know that main folder so now it
won't have anything in it until we start
doing the 2022 presentations
and do that stuff for
you know weekly status uh filing like i
said there may be notes that it just
makes sense that i've got all of these
work notes that i'm gonna
i've got a folder that i put them in and
i say hey here's the 2021 notes so i
start with a little bit of a
sort of like a clean slate moving
forward so that's a that's an excellent
point to make is that there's those are
little things that we can do
that may help us simplify and be more
organized as we start the year ahead it
just gives us a little more
opportunity to
to start on the right foot
so great point
all right so
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