I’ve been in South Korea for the last few weeks, on a project for my job. Even though it’s been a business trip, and mostly consisting of work, I’ve had some good experiences/memories that I want to start sharing before they’re lost forever.
The first thing that pops into my mind is a couple of weekends ago, when I ventured out in pursuit of a haircut. (more…)
I got a good laugh out of myself this morning. I sat at my computer to begin work on an iPhone game that I’m co-developing. I became in thought about how there’s not enough time in the day to do all of the things that I want to do. After about 5 minutes in my spaceship of daydreams, I landed back on earth to find myself reading random articles on the internet instead of performing the task that I had sat down to do.
Conundrum: How can I complain about the lack of time that I have when I waste so much of it? I’d bet that I spend about 5-10 minutes out of every hour similarly lost in thought or distracted in some other manner. During any period of work hours, that’s almost 20% of my productivity out of the window. Which brings me to the challenge that I presented to myself this morning, and now to you: strive to squeeze every last drop of time out of your work day. Time is too valuable of a commodity to waste. Here are a couple of suggestions on how to maximize your time.
I’m starting to think that if I continue to wait on a grand, extravagant, next-big-thing idea to hit me, I’m going to die an old, broke (yet still hopeful) loser.
One thing about me: I’m an aspiring entrepreneur. Whenever the fit hits me, I start surfing through ideas in my head, with the hopes of finding a good one, and dropping the “aspiring” part that constantly haunts me.
Today, it has become clearer that the reason I’m stuck at this stage is because I let my thoughts over-complicate what’s in front of me. I expect my hopes and dreams to be answered with this rare nugget of intricate business genius, that’s so unique that no one else could keep up with it, and I’d be remembered forever for it. Reality is, a lot of good business ideas use tried-and-true models, and rarely is there something novel in that category.