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Be More Productive by Knowing Your Situation

I often have a hard time being productive on the weekend. I usually take Saturday off from work and try to be productive in other ways.  We have several young children so there are a countless amount of things to work on when home.

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I have this thing about feeling productive all the time. So caring for the physical needs of the kids usually feels frustrating unless I am multitasking and feeling like I am getting something else done.

The trouble is when I try to get other things done like writing or reading or planning or working on the house I never seem to be able to make alot of progress.

I cant make progress because the 1 year old just fell off the chair, or because she just dumped a glass of milk all over herself and the rug.  I cant make progress because our 3 year old has to go potty right now and needs help with the process.

I can’t make progress because the 5 year old wants to play with me and help him change his clothes to play out side.

I can’t make progress because the 7 year old is trashing her room and needs a little correction.  I can’t make progress because my 9 year old needs help with her math immediately.

This cycle tends to repeat itself.  So I give in and stay “unproductive”, but the truth is, when I am caring for the kids, then I do a better job at it when I am only caring for the kids.  When I go to work then it is time to only work… doing tasks for my company.  When its time to write, it is time to only write.  When its time to read then its only time to read.  The lie of multitasking is that you are getting more things done, in reality your getting less.  There is a time and a place for every situation.

Every task that is before me is productive and important.  Even changing diapers and cleaning milk.

I’m starting to catch up with my wife on this concept.

Just caring for the kids, keeping them safe, keeping them fed, keeping them clothed, keeping them civil toward one another, keeping them on a schedule, keeping them warm, keeping them dry are productive things to do with my time.

That is my situation right now…I am ok with that.

Are you able to multitask while caring for young children?

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Replacing the ‘social’ in ‘social media’?

Many innovation thinkers propose the use of social media in the workplace, I’ve been one of them.  If you stop and think about social media, it has been a spontaneous growth of voluntary connectedness with people in our lives.  Connections are made on social media voluntarily, I want to be social with my connections, with my audience.  I dont want to connect with just anyone unless it is a marketing activity. 

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Current friends, my family. relatives and old friends all make it to my social network.

So doesn’t implementing ‘social’ media within the workplace assume that we want to connect voluntarily with other employees. The fact is, the larger the company the more likely people will not want to connect wth one another. 

I love social media but the truth is there are people that I do not want to connect with socially at my place of employment for a variety of reasons.  Add the competitive nature of most employees and use social media tools at work becomes unlikely.

Maybe it is time to create a new platform based on the “social media” platform.  We should not call it social because of all the assumptions that people have about social media (particularly facebook), we can call it “collaboration media” or “Your Company Name media” and the purpose of this platform is to be well defined and is not for being social. 

Its stated purpose should be connecting for teaching/reporting to one another.  It is simply a tool to share information and it should not carry with it all the strings attached friendships and voluntary connectedness of “social” media (like facebook).

Do you use a social media tool for internal communication or collaboration? Please share.

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New Year | New Goals

Forget making ‘resolutions’, make goals for 2013.

Make goals for your finances, make goals for your family, make goals for your marraige.

Make goals that are in writing, make goals that are specific, make goals that are measurable.

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Go do it now then share two in the comments below.

Two of my goals:

  1. to post a minimum of one time per week to this blog
  2. to finish writing, editing and publishing my book 

Please write your goals in the comments and/or share this post.

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