“Consider everything an experiment.” ― Corita Kent
How can one be productive? -Quora
As this year ends, I think it’s an excellent time to reflect on just how far we have come. We focus so much on what we want to achieve that perhaps we don’t stop and realize that we are not the same person we were when the year started. There has been people and experiences that have changed us either for the good or the bad. This is the time to reflect and see if what you are aiming for is still relevant. Do we need to readjust and realign our priorities? Do we still feel the same way about these things?
In the military, we would call this time for reflection an After-Action Review or AAR for short. This is when we would sit down and ask the participants what their experience was. Did we hit our objective? Where did we come up short and what did we do right? What did you learn? To know is you are productive, you first need to know what the goal was that you were aiming for.
What is your target?
We can apply an AAR to weekly, monthly or year end events. Did you hit your weekly, monthly, or year-end goal? What did we come up short on and what did we do right? What have we learned? By taking time to see what worked and what didn’t we can now adjust our aim.
Being productive is only relevant in the terms to what you want to achieve and the kind of life you want to live.
- Write down your dreams and goals. You can’t hit what you can’t see.
- Evaluate the activity you engage in daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Are they in alignment with your core beliefs? Are they taking you to or away from your goals?
- Reflect on what is working and what is not. Conduct an After-Action Review.
- Adjust your aim and keep moving.
For 2022 to be productive for you, take a moment of reflection and see what your core values and beliefs are. Then you will know what kind of activities you need to incorporate or eliminate.
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It was December of 2011, I was listening to Katy Perry’s “Firework “on my way to work and was balling like a big old baby. I knew I had to make a change in my life but I was a wife and a mother of three with financial obligations. Something said you can’t keep living like this, you are miserable with you job. I finally got the nerve up to go into Human Resources and put my two weeks’ notice in. I had no real idea what I planned on doing but one thing for sure was I was not going to keep working the same job I had done for almost 25 years through the military and private sector. Many people offered their opinions about my actions but for some strange reason, I felt I was where I needed to be doing exactly what it was I was doing. At that time I didn’t know that some people would call that a “calling”. My life hit some rough patches during 2012 through 2013. It wasn’t until 2014 that things started to fall into place. By now, I had my social media business for 2 years with no real growth. You may be asking yourself, how is that falling into place? Let me explain.
During that time we both were in a transitional period of our lives. He signed on with me in 2013 as a client. He had asked me to trust him and that he would do all that we could do to make his dreams come true and that if he made it, we both would make it. I committed myself to support his dreams by doing what I did best, helping him with his social media presence.
I know I am not where I want to be in career but I can honestly say I’m enjoying the journey.
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