“I like to play blackjack. I’m not addicted to gambling, I’m addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.”
– Mitch Hedberg (1968 – 2005), iconic American stand-up comic
Sort of a Mitch Hedberg theme this week… Mainly because I love how he spun common perspectives to make them thought provoking.
Excuses are the scourge of — well, let’s just say that excuses are a scourge.
“I’m not addicted to work, I just have a LOT of responsibility.” “I know I shouldn’t work 75 hours, but there are a lot of people looking to me for the example.” “I know I missed the choir concert, but we have a Board meeting tomorrow, and I needed to get ready…”
Prioritization.
It’s the only cure for Workaholism. What it does is give us perspective on why that 65th through 81st hour not only aren’t helping the business, they’re hurting our lives outside the office. Prioritization helps us make decisions, and get down to the one Essential thing, now. Then the next one. And so on.
Another reminder to recommend Greg McKeown’s book, Essentialism.
Maybe our most difference making step will be making the killing of excuses our first priority.
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