I am thoroughly enjoying all of the different types of
things that I get involved with in this job, I have always been someone who
loves to get involved with all sorts of things. However, with that comes a
challenge - figuring out how to best use my time to greatest effect. I could
easily fill my diary three times over every week. So, to put it another way, I
need to figure out what to say no to. A friend laughed when I said that I need
to be able to say no in this job. She knows me (and my sister) well. “Good luck”
was all she said, but the meaning was clear – not one of my strengths!
In the last week my activities have included –
recommissioning of youth services event run by Surrey County Council, meeting
with a group of other Infrastructure CEOs as well as meeting individually with three
different charity chief executives, various not so fun admin issues, internal
meetings on Communilab and our Youth Social Action conference. The week
finished with an event on Social Inclusion organised by the Enterprise M3, the Local
Economic Partnership covering the M3 corridor.
Fitted in between the activities I am writing our three year strategy. The purpose
of a strategy is, of course, to help guide the organisation to make choices
over what it will and won’t do over the forthcoming months and years. Will that
help bring me clarity about my priorities? Hopefully, if it makes sense.
My challenge to you this week is this: Are you clear about
what you are trying to achieve in work or life? Are you saying “yes” to the things
that will help get you there and “no” to the things that won’t? Of course there
will always be grey areas – activities which could possibly bear fruit - but
clarity about where you are trying to get will definitely help.
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