Julie Morgenstern
Julie Morgenstern
figure people personal soon stuff work
People figure they'll get to the personal stuff as soon as the work is finished,
deadline early leaving work
Leaving work a half-hour early makes you work as if you're on a deadline all the time.
bedroom choose clients location percent remote spare work wrong
I would say that 75 percent to 80 percent of the clients I work with choose the wrong place for their files. They tuck it away in some remote location like a spare bedroom or in a basement.
calm check economy-and-economics global order people proactive programmed quiet wait
The influx of e-mail never stops, particularly in a global economy, ... You could always check e-mail. And people are still programmed to wait for things to calm down in order to do proactive stuff: 'When it quiets down, when I get through this flood, this batch, these to-dos, I will get proactive.' But there never is a quiet time.
hold memory stuff
Once you have a baby, you can't hold all this stuff in your memory.