I’m not on twitter much, just here and there. For me, it’s a distraction, but I do get emails from them with stuff they think I’d like and tweets I missed.
Not long ago, I opened up that email and at the top was one from @StuAcademyAAPA that went something like this:
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How is studying going?
This question can be best answered with a pie chart.
And then a picture of this guy (from The Office, I think) holding up a pie chart with 2/3 shaded as PROCRASTINATING and the other 1/3 as DISTRACTING OTHERS.
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Nailed it.
Imagine for a second that you’re a big-time company. Let’s call it “You Inc.”
Now You Inc. is thousands of dollars in debt. You Inc. is betting everything on one strategy. Borrow money to keep the lights on long enough for this one big client that we are going to land. And once we have that client, things will be right as rain.
If You Inc. doesn’t land that client… well, the lights go out, but the debt stays. You can’t bankrupt the kind of debt You Inc. has taken. It has to get paid back.
Now, being the big cheese at You Inc., you make sure every team member is on board and knows that they have to bust their butts to land this client.
But you keep hearing that your team members “don’t have enough time.” That there is just too much to do and not enough time, and that you’re a slave driver.
Being an intelligent, attractive, and conscientious owner of this company, you hire some outside help. A time management consultant.
On day one he says, “I begin by taking one week to spend time with your employees and track where the time goes.”
Terrified, you scream “NO, anything but that! Just give us some tips, please. I only wanted you to give us some tips!”
I was reading something the other day and there was this quote that went something like this:
When referring to money, if you say things like “Where does it all go?” then you’re probably broke. You need to know where it goes so you can make some adjustments.
The same goes for your time. If you’re saying you don’t have enough time or asking where the time goes… Start keeping track.
But for those of you just looking for quick tips to implement, the August issue of Physician Assistant Exam Scholars will not disappoint. There’s an idea in there you can start using tomorrow that will get you focused and humming along once you do actually sit down and get to work.
Brian Wallace
