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Let’s hear it for meetings!!! Woohoo! Wait, why aren’t you all excited and bubbling with enthusiasm? Come on, it’ll be fun: We’ll catch up, talk about the kids,  what happened on Idol last night, what a ditz that Genevieve in accounting is…

The scenario above is the edict for some when it comes to meetings:  To them, it’s really a social forum that helps them feel a part of things, which is good, until it derails the initial intent of your meeting and you’re starting 15 minutes later than you wanted.  Some even belief that this  “face time” some how translates into actual results, as if the term “meeting” equals productivity. Sometimes it does, but often times it doesn’t. It’s not that meetings are unnecessary, because certainly they have a place in the grand scheme of GTD. Just bear in mind the point of the meeting:  unless your meeting accomplishes something right then and there, your meeting has actually failed. Don’t believe me?  Now be honest:   The rest of the story...

In the land of trust fund kids and a rather large number of medical marijuana dispensaries, maybe the prospect of Google Fiber is no big deal. Let’s face it; we’re certainly an active and educated bunch, so why the big deal over Google Fiber, right? Wrong. Believe it or not, there are people without broadband right now, right here in our beautiful, affluent city. There are schools, nonprofits and even needy citizens that could really benefit from this kind of technology. Consider just these three things having this kind of technology could do for our city:   The rest of the story...

• Schools and libraries could put curriculum, books, and training materials online, even offer classes online in real-time, saving in the expense of these resources
• Hospitals, clinics, and veterinarians could easily share complex medical information and charts more quickly and collaborate like never before
• Nonprofits could train their volunteer base remotely and even seamlessly conduct fund-raising events online

The most well-intentioned plans, the most heart-felt desires – they’re great.
That’s the fuel that can help things get done.

But that passion can also be blindingly detrimental, strangling the life from an otherwise excellent venture or project.

Sometimes your passion will get in the way of your success.
Sometimes your passion will paralyze you.
Sometimes your passion is actually setting you up for failure.

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• By giving you the false hope that what you’re doing is the best way to do it.
• By allowing you to rationalize procrastination as “due diligence.”
• By helping you to stubbornly refuse seeking or adopting better tools or methods.
• By ham-stringing you with the thought that with a change, all your work will be undone.
• By making you dig your heels in because you didn’t come up with the idea first.
• By painting the illusion that it’s too hard to learn something new or better.
• By filling you with a fear that it will be too scary to make changes.

In a previous post, I talked about volunteering. It was heartening that many others feel the same way, giving time and skills to issues or organizations that move them. I purposely timed that post to coincide with no particular holiday, but I decided on the eve of Thanksgiving, it would be  appropriate to write this little reminder of sorts.

This is that time of year when we pause and give thanks. So what am I thankful for? It’s cliche′, but everything: the opportunity to work as I do at what I love, to enjoy my family and friends and live a life I’m proud of, to take in as much hockey as my legs allow, and spend my spare time engrossed in hobbies that feed my soul. I’m also very thankful that I can then turn around and help others, not just nonprofits, but businesses and individuals, for if things were not okay with other areas in my life, this would be difficult.

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