Post by 4aapl on May 28, 2022 11:47:39 GMT -8
"just not at the same damn time!"
While this book is aimed at women, there wasn't too much that was women specific, and even the issues and emotions of trying to do it all for your kids and their schools has some spillover. I ended up with 3 self-help/self-realization books at the same time. This one was lowest on the list, and so I skimmed parts of it, finishing it in one evening mainly just to get it out the door.
Her mindset is starting your own business while working at another, valuing your time at what you hope it is worth someday and will have you hit your goals, and then figuring out what to drop or hire out so that you have time for excelling at what is important.
Done!
FWIW, this is similar to both Steve and Tim stating the biggest challenge for Apple is saying No to lots of projects/opportunities. And at a non-profit I help at, the same discussion just came up, though their analogy was having a big prioritized list of everything, but deciding where the line is and only working on things "above the water line". That way other things aren't dropped entirely, but rather just there as something you aren't currently working on with the current staff and volunteers. I've done that in the past on home projects before a new renter comes in, with high/medium/low and some time estimates. It worked pretty well on focusing on what mattered most.
She had some interesting points, while keeping time for exercise and for quiet. She was against multitasking in general, but said it sometimes worked. Like having a lunch meeting with a coworker with takeout, while their cars were being washed. Sounds like a triple word score from Scrabble. But the point was you could really only do one thing at a time that required concentration/thought, but you could sometimes fit in some other things too if they didn't conflict.
She did have a bit of a flaw in that she and her husband had to let go of the hassle from working on a per-hour basis, but then she guessed at what it would take to have what she wanted while wanting to only work 20 hours per week, and that gave her a benchmark to use on everything. Spoiler: $1M/year, so she put that at $946/hr. Valuing yourself that way makes lawyer rates look cheap, and yet by using 52 weeks instead of 50 she wasn't even giving herself time for a vacation.
This book was decent, but there is probably better. OTOH, if it's sitting down at your library and you can blow through it in 3 hours, there's not much downside.
It was a good reminder to value your time, and hire out what is cheap or what you don't like, if it doesn't actually require you to do it or give you satisfaction. She had some examples like bookkeeping for her business. But part of this is figuring out what you like to do, and what you don't.
While this book is aimed at women, there wasn't too much that was women specific, and even the issues and emotions of trying to do it all for your kids and their schools has some spillover. I ended up with 3 self-help/self-realization books at the same time. This one was lowest on the list, and so I skimmed parts of it, finishing it in one evening mainly just to get it out the door.
Her mindset is starting your own business while working at another, valuing your time at what you hope it is worth someday and will have you hit your goals, and then figuring out what to drop or hire out so that you have time for excelling at what is important.
Done!
FWIW, this is similar to both Steve and Tim stating the biggest challenge for Apple is saying No to lots of projects/opportunities. And at a non-profit I help at, the same discussion just came up, though their analogy was having a big prioritized list of everything, but deciding where the line is and only working on things "above the water line". That way other things aren't dropped entirely, but rather just there as something you aren't currently working on with the current staff and volunteers. I've done that in the past on home projects before a new renter comes in, with high/medium/low and some time estimates. It worked pretty well on focusing on what mattered most.
She had some interesting points, while keeping time for exercise and for quiet. She was against multitasking in general, but said it sometimes worked. Like having a lunch meeting with a coworker with takeout, while their cars were being washed. Sounds like a triple word score from Scrabble. But the point was you could really only do one thing at a time that required concentration/thought, but you could sometimes fit in some other things too if they didn't conflict.
She did have a bit of a flaw in that she and her husband had to let go of the hassle from working on a per-hour basis, but then she guessed at what it would take to have what she wanted while wanting to only work 20 hours per week, and that gave her a benchmark to use on everything. Spoiler: $1M/year, so she put that at $946/hr. Valuing yourself that way makes lawyer rates look cheap, and yet by using 52 weeks instead of 50 she wasn't even giving herself time for a vacation.
This book was decent, but there is probably better. OTOH, if it's sitting down at your library and you can blow through it in 3 hours, there's not much downside.
It was a good reminder to value your time, and hire out what is cheap or what you don't like, if it doesn't actually require you to do it or give you satisfaction. She had some examples like bookkeeping for her business. But part of this is figuring out what you like to do, and what you don't.