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Work Desk Must haves

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Yesterday I shared about my whiteboard, a key element in my office that inspires me.

Today, I will share what I also keep at my desk in front of me at all times:

On cardboard paper:

  • My Work Goals for the quarter (it’s very important to keep your goals visible)
  • My work affirmations (added just recently).
    • I am committed to being a leader, an initiator, an over-communicator and fast deliverer at my job.
    • I am committed to getting better and better at my job.
    • I am committed to communicating clearly and effectively.
    • I am committed to giving generously to others, the more I give, the more I receive and the happier I feel.
    • I am committed to expanding in abundance, success and love and inspiring others to do the same

On post-it notes:

  • My mantra of the Year: Practice Focused Attention. Maybe I need to rephrase into a question: Are you practicing focused attention? Much more powerful, no?
  • My workday startup ritual steps, including the check-in questions.
  • My workday shutdown ritual steps, including the check-out questions.

Since writing my ritual steps on post-its last month I’ve been committing to them more. In addition, I set an alarm 30 minutes before workday end to remind me to start my shutdown ritual and leave on time.

I hope you find this helpful to you.

Snapshot from my work desk showing some of the above

Work Desk Must haves

Psychological Safety at Work

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I’ve been geeking over the author and Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson who created the term Psychological Safety. This turned out to be the most important factor in making teams work.

Dr. Amy defines Psychological Safety as “shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking”.

Also quoted here: “People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions out of left field, and brainstorm out loud in order to create a culture that truly innovates.”

There are many resources to delve into Dr. Amy’s great work like her book The Fearless Organization. Her TED talk is a great start. Very impressive work.

Psychological Safety at Work

Work Meetings Rule

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A friend of mine complained to us in the group text we have about working over the weekend instead of spending time with her family. I gave her the below advice and it worked so well with her that it might work well with you.

To avoid the temptation of procrastination, reschedule all your project meetings from the first work day of the week to mid-week or to the morning of the last work day of the week. This will give you enough time to work on the updates you need to share in those meetings, and also be able to close off the week, prepare for the next work week and disengage from work time into family time.

I hope this advice would help you too.

Thank you Seth for reminding us: Happy day 100 of 2021!

Work Meetings Rule

Spiritual Excel Sheet

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When I get stuck on a task I don’t enjoy or did not do before or that has a lot of ambiguity, I feel I need to muster my strength and power through it using the practices I learned and proved to work before; like research, analysis, using timers for deep work sessions. I think to myself get focused and get it done. I noticed I never pray for guidance and feeling ease because my work task is so earthly and Divine guidance is not part of the equation for me. Not only that, but I had a limiting belief that this is not where we use spiritual practices, and that we should only use them in relationships and managing emotions.

But why not for work?

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