February 16th, 2007
One of the things I decided to do for myself the year before last was to attend one of those GTD: Roadmap seminars from David Allen. The place was packed with people from all over the country coming into the seminar — I was fortunate in that I was able to simply take a bus […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 15th, 2007
When you are doing your work, you are really following a process. Either your process or the one the business set up for you to follow.
Need to get some supplies? If you work for a company, for example, that could mean anything from going to speak with Paul to order the supplies to going online […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 14th, 2007
Since it is Valentine’s Day, I thought it would make a bit more sense to talk about “attraction” today than “resistance.” Have to go with the flow, you know, here on Pimp Your Work!
Over time, no matter how strong your passion about your work, your life, or your mate, resistance will start to build and […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 13th, 2007
You’re passionate about your life and work, aren’t you? You’re supposed to be.
Yet, here you are, dragging your sorry behind into work and barely getting anything done in spite of the fact this is the work you were most excited about doing in years. Ignoring all those cool tricks and toys that Tris has been […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 12th, 2007
One of the things David Allen, of Getting Things Done fame, talks about in his seminars is that you should “pay attention to what you are paying attention to.”
One of the things I’ve been paying attention to without paying attention to it is “resistance.” There are a lot of flavors of resistance, and I’ve been […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 9th, 2007
True story: I’m walking down the street between two of my company’s locations and run into a coworker. In the middle of the crosswalk, walking in opposite directions, he shouts out to me:
“Did anything happen in your environment this week?”
Thinking about it for a second, I responded, “No, everything was OK for me.”
In corporate speak, […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 8th, 2007
What’s your passion? How easy is it to work your passion in Corporate-land?
I was at dinner talking to a friend and commenting about how difficult it is to work your passion, yet stay dispassionate about your employer.
Your employer, after all, doesn’t care about your passion. Only you do. One of the nice things about being […]
By Scot Herrick -- 0 comments
February 6th, 2007
When you think of creativity in your work, do you think creativity means being able to come up with anything to solve a problem?
One of the more interesting concepts about creativity is that creativity doesn’t work real well when you can, in fact, come up with anything to solve a problem.
There is a principle of […]
By Scot Herrick -- 3 comments
February 1st, 2007
You know how you’re supposed to be passionate about your work, right? Right? Being passionate means you wake up in the morning ready and willing to face the work day; perhaps even really looking forward to the work to be done.
Not all of us are like that, however. For some of us, work is a […]
By Scot Herrick -- 2 comments
January 31st, 2007
Yeah, sure this isn’t too work-related, but take a break and try this out. Go and make an M&M of yourself. Yeah this is me. Yes those are robot arms. Thought it added a little techno-geek to my look. Yes I am growing a soul-patch right now, I couldn’t add anything for the chin, […]
By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments
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