Manage To Change

RIP Steve Jobs

My two favorite Jobs quotes:

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

Stanford commencement speech, June 2005

 

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998

 

Turn It Off

We're all busy.  

For me, a small and rapidly expanding business takes up most of my time. It's both exciting and exhausting. For you it might be the same or it might be a demanding position with a more traditional employment agreement. It doesn't matter.  

My epiphany this weekend was that it is NOT only the hours I work that exhaust me.  It's the hours I think I'm not working that wear me out!

The busier I get the more I seem to mentally process all the things I need to do at times when I should be disconnecting, relaxing, and giving my poor brain a rest.

Sure we could start talking about multi-tasking, over stimulation with news and information, fractured attention, and tons of things that erode our productivity and inhibit our ability to rejuvenate.

But for me...I'm going to start by taking one day completely off every week. 

What do you do to recharge your brain? Any suggestions?