Finding the time to think has been one of the harder tasks this year...
"Working longer hours is no longer the point. Sure, the longer I stay out baling hay the more bales I will bale. However, I for one know that if I spend much longer than an hour writing, the quality severely diminishes. I need to take a break and when I come back I tend to have a freshness and clarity.
Being busy is often an excuse for not doing something you should be doing. For me it has often been an excuse for not thinking, managing, and planning properly. Working hard is no longer the route to success it once was perceived to be. In an era of outsourcing and offshoring, success definitely does require hard work, but what is way more important is smart work. Basically, all the hard work will be outsourced, with just the smart work remaining."
Hi Kirsty
Enjoyed this article and can relate so much at the moment. I've been fiddling with blog development today and have made some progress with motime - thanks for the tip re its category options. I have put a link to your blog at the home page of mine!
Terri
Posted by: Terri at September 30, 2004 12:23 PMHi Terri,
Glad to hear you've got to the point of being able to get your information into a blog. One of the things I love about mine the ability to go and do a search later for something I know I've written.
One tip from Stephen Downes' talk on Friday in Hobart was that you can do a Google search on your own site by including your blog address in the search field - eg for my FLL blog it would be site:.otheredge.com.au/klogs/fll after the word I am searching for. I knew about using site:.au for looking only for Australian sites but hadn't extrapolated.
Cheers, Kirsty
Posted by: Kirsty at October 3, 2004 08:02 PM