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When resting is wasting time, you need a reset button

How do you waste the most time every day?

One of the easiest questions to answer is about how I waste time. Short answer: meetings. And, I can assure you I am not the only one who experiences and feels this. That is why there are so many coffee cups and mugs that state there was yet another work meeting that could have been an email. And, most meetings end in a lack of resolution of some problems. Issues get tabled quite often, which makes one wonder why bring them to the table in the first place.

And, trust me, nothing works to make them more productive. Consensus agenda is not really implemented. Walking meetings dont allow for note-taking practices. Timed agendas end up with reporting out of inconsequential materials. I can go on.

However, there’s another waste of time, and that is the act of constant worrying about wasting time. We wallow in such thoughts. We fret about it. Yet we worry that we should do something better with our time. Even in my down time, I at times, feel like I’m wasting time.

This is when you know you need a reset button.

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  1. Wow ‘Rubber Band Man’ By ‘The Spinners’ Fitting Right iN
    Left On Again Oh Yes Dear Lord Yes How Clearly i Remember
    The ‘Wasted Hours Upon hours’ Held Prisoner In
    Higher Echelon Personnel Meetings Designed
    To Reflect On Whatever the ‘Head Honcho’ Had
    to Opine That Was in No Way Related to the Job
    At Hand
    i Am (was)
    Hired to Do
    Where the Head
    Honcho Acted Like
    The Job i Was Hired
    to Do Then Just a Small Collateral
    Duty Far Below my Responsibility
    Among Others to Lend Our Ears to ‘Him’ hehe
    It is A Somewhat Well Known Fact that the “Letting
    Go” of Time That ‘Mindless’ Doodling on PAge BRings
    AcTuAlly Substantially Increases Human Creativity And
    Productivity Unleashing What Science Describes As the
    Other 99.5 Percent of the Totality of Our Mind Including
    Subconscious Potentials in Synergy That the .5 Percent
    Word Thinking Mind of Planning Doesn’t Even Touch Yes Oh Dear
    Lord Miriam too Yes Memories of the Fourth of July in School
    Signaling The Return of Time After Summer Vacation Half
    Spent Then Free and Then the Work Years Fourth of July
    On A Tuesday With the Stark Reality at the End of the
    Fireworks An Early Morn to Awake to Meet Deadlines
    in the Endless Wash Rinse Dry Cycle of Time to Do
    Work and School Well Well Well Now i Live in Now
    i Don’t Only Waste Time i Killed it After ReTiRinG
    Those Barren Wheels of Soul Destroyed By All
    The DEADlines of Time in School and Work
    Yes Fresh Tread Now on Time As i Drive
    Over Time And KiLL iT iN Flow As
    A Life of Play Just Doodling
    Away Just Like This So Far
    Beyond Not Only Time Yet Distance
    Space and A Matter of Things as my Fingers
    Dance Over All of that Just Releasing Fumes of Bliss on Page Free
    And on Smooth Dance Floors Freshly Renovated By my Feet At Walmart
    As All of Life
    Becomes A
    Doodling Dance Floor Free..:)

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