The theme for today's IBM Toastmaster meeting is "How busy are you?" The theme--picked by Mark who took over the Toastmaster MC role when the original member got tied up by something else--has a poignant meaning because at the economic downturn, folks just seem to have so much to do and can't find time for non-essential activities. That reminds me of Covey's Habit 2 and Habit 3.
Habit 2 says Begin with the End In Mind. Habit 3 says Put first things first.
Questions are:
1. What is your End? Where do you want to go? What is really important to you? What is your personal mission? If you were to die tomorrow, what would your tombstone read?
2. Based on your End, what are some of the important but not urgent things you got to find the time to do, that you need to put some priority on?
3. What are some of the really urgent but not important activities that are consuming your time?
4. What are some of the unimportant/un-urgent things you do and that are taking up your spare time?
Come to think of it, the most important and not urgent thing for most of to do is probably to spend some time finding out what our mission statement should be and that will determine what essential really means to us.
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