Productivity – Page 2 – Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe

The Road Less Timed: Goals Vs Timelines

Perfectionism and rigid timelines can be counterproductive.

Striking a balance between ambitious goals and realistic timelines requires a nuaced approach.

Goals provide vision while timelines offer structure.

Busy isn’t always better.

Success isn’t just about the grind; it’s about the balance between effort and recovery.

Rest is not a sign of weakness; it’s a strategic move for peak performance.

Ever notice that kids constantly ask ‘why’? They’re onto something – that’s how they learn and grow.

The best leaders don’t just give orders; they encourage their teams to ask ‘why’ and find better solutions.

Curiosity isn’t just the spark of invention; it’s also the fuel that keeps the fire burning.

You can’t take off on a broken runway.

If you want your team to fly, you need to clear their path.

Make all the decisions you need to make so that their path is as clear as possible.

Looking at success, you can miss what is important.

Ignoring failure, you can miss what is successful.

Going backwards from an outcome can create an cause and effect conclusion that misses key information to achieve that outcome.

Every process will have problems, but only if they are unforeseen.

If you know something unwanted might happen you can plan around it or plan for it.

A problem is only a problem if you don’t see it coming. Then you are the problem.

Outcomes are important to provide direction but action will get you there.

Where you first aimed for might not be where you end up but the process of moving forward will test and educated.

You don’ t need to end up where you thought you would but you do need to start.

Having people evaluate their own work is like being able to grade your own paper, you are always going to give yourself great scores.

Process evaluation from another person adds rigour to the thinking if the evaluator wants the process to succeed.

Making a decision quickly doesn’t donate skill.

Taking the time you have to think about a nuanced and considered answer shows wisdom.

A knee jerk reaction doesn’t.

Improvement requires specificity and restraint.

You can’t improve everything all at once.

You must pick something to improve rather everything, because everything will become nothing.