Self restriction

I just want to narrate one incident which happened last week. IT was the weekend and I was as usual doing something at home and then comes the call from my colleague. OK , he has this habit of giving a call from the office landline if he is working on a weekend. So as soon as I see the call this is the first thought which came into my mind. Then he asked some 2-3 questions. Outwardly with all good intentions but he has somewhat getting my ok before he sends out an email. He wanted to let me know that he is not overruling me. But then in the process with my prejudice I started to spell out what was there in my mind. But if I see the outcome, I realised quite a number of things.



- As a PM lot of things which I should have planned I have not done. I am lazy

- As an outcome of the email and the replies we just realised that there will be a delay of 2 weeks. The project is already dealyed for more than year.

- He never wants to reveal what he is going to do.



But then after realising all this what did I do ? Nothing. Anyhow. Somehow I thought of picking up the following from the daily prayer website I go to http://www.sacredspace.ie/. It is a very apt way to wind down a day.



How do I find myself today?

Where am I with God?

With others?

Do I have something to be grateful for? Then I give thanks.

Is there something I am sorry for? Then I ask forgiveness.



This could be elaborated further for your daily job related activites as well. Right? Need to think.

Nowadays I am bend upon getting my time management done properly. I am following loosely the Peter Bregman suggestion of "Make your day in 18 minutes" and also Tom Peters words of "1. Every day morning , write down a list of things that need to be done that day.

2. DO THEM"



Let us see how I progress. Will monitor the progress everyday. YEsterday was a day proclaimed myself as a lazy day. Was very tired in the morning when I woke up. The weekend sports made me so tired that I was cursing myself. Everyday morning I wake up with the curse that I did not start studying again. I have to get up at 04:30 in the morning!!!!!