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* How seeing your life in dots shifts perspectives

* How many books left to be read? How many swims? How many times will you see your relatives again?

* You may want to take action especially on your relationships

* Tim Urban’s post https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

Republishing oldies as they are still relevant and may resonate again or in a new way now!

* Steep curve down for enthusiasm

* Take action upon meaningful interactions

* “Greatest joys are happening right now and things that happen in the future might not happen at all” from Shotgun Story podcast episode with Jennifer Eaves. I recommend listening to some episodes about indie music creators in South Africa.

Republishing oldies as they are still relevant and may resonate again or in a new way now!

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* Pausing is a side benefit of consultant/coach’s intervention

* Rest and recovery happen to be the new winning formulas for advanced athletes

* It is not about strategies you develop to do more but actually about what you don’t do

Republishing oldies as they are still relevant and may resonate again or in a new way now!

Show notes

* “Don’t be right be sure” Robert Timmis (his Linkedin profile)

* What is your take?

* It brings to me:

* a way to escape binary thinking

* keeping me on my toes

* connecting me to my emotions and shutting down the rational self

* this is about me and my close ones as well

Republishing oldies as they are still relevant and may resonate again or in a new way now!

* Just lower the stakes on starting an activity, you will make your life easier

* Also has to deal with your identity as James Clear describes in Atomic Habits

Republishing oldies as they are still relevant and may resonate again or in a new way now!

Sam is sharing a user manual of himself before interviews and he does the same with his colleagues.

It may cover

* Pattern of work

* Emails tools

* Hours

* Style communication

* Acknowledgment

* Expectations

Multiple benefits e.g. you don't criticise people but their ways

Some pitfalls to avoid - not an excuse to justify wrong behaviours or transferring mental burden to others (that need to adjust to your weird ways)

What is your way?

I am Yoann Joyeux, leadership coach, entrepreneur, farmer with roots in France and in South Africa.  In this space, I am tracking business trends, performance ideas and sharing them as voice notes. I like to consider these audios as leads that may trigger new thoughts or actions for you to grow.

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IDEO is fascinating in the way that they think about people, the way that they think about recruiting. They describe their ideal employee as a T-shaped person. The horizontal stroke of the T means that this is a person that is deeply interested and able to engage fluently in lots and lots of different topics, but the vertical stroke of the T is their expertise, their deep expertise in one area.

A case from Ideo https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/changing-the-way-managers-think-about-generating-new-ideas

I am Yoann Joyeux, leadership coach, entrepreneur, farmer with roots in France and in South Africa.  In this space, I am tracking business trends, performance ideas and sharing them as voice notes. I share them as leads in order to trigger new thoughts or actions for you to grow.

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Let’s ponder the fact that we barely live in the present as we constantly think about future outcomes. We differ value forward but never cash out.

One solution is to look for task oriented actions versus time oriented actions. Look for leisure hobbies as opposed to self improvement hobbies that are future focused activities. Many creative endeavours fit this mindset.

The metric should be about matching your to-do lists and your available time" as opposed to doing more things.

What if you knew there's never going to be enough time?

I am Yoann Joyeux, leadership coach, entrepreneur, farmer with roots in France and in South Africa.  In this space, I am tracking business trends, performance ideas and sharing them as voice notes. I share them as leads in order to trigger new thoughts or actions for you to grow.

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A good mentor will act as a coach helping with listening, challenging and ideating but most importantly supporting you. He/She will add a layer of what would I do if I were you, new ideas and maybe some networking opportunities.

If you haven’t found your mentor, build your own one

The perspective: scrap that to do list for whatever time you can afford and focus on the intensity

Stable diffusion attempt to merge my two anecdotes’ topics:

“Laziness is a lie” is an essay from Devon Price.

They reckon laziness is a Western cultural construct defined by 3 attributes:

1 Your worth is defined by your productivity2 You can't trust your needs or limitations as they are barrier to productivity3 There is always more you can be doing 

This locks in a system that has been self-reinforcing.

Think about childhood examples “if you don’t work hard enough you will become a homeless person”. Or the idea that some type of people by essence are likely to become homeless.

The objection that you may slow down only if you are rich enough is being fought against by Trisha Hersey.

Not in the sense that everybody is able to take a pause if they want (hence they just need to stop being lazy) but more that we must fight for everybody to get decent sleeps and naps.

Check out Trisha Hersey too at the Nap Ministry -  https://thenapministry.com/

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We all have our old version of the news now. Nothing new except that serendipity is being curtailed down.

On the Ukraine war, as an instance, I see the impact on nature whilst other see migrants’ invasion (besides, if not barring, the actual major facts).

Could it be a way to leverage our needs to check that we are sharing similar info, making things more explicit?

Imagine someone telling you I am bored I don't know what to do.

Is the fad about busyness starting to go away?

What if we were seizing any opportunity to ask each other how we feel?

What if your answer is “I am bored” or “I am idle”

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Hunter gatherers worked less and were happier, it has been said many times now. One reason is that we are driven by a scarcity culture that can be questioned.

One can’t be happy if the goal posts keep moving. 

Alternate short term gratification and long term gratification for work and for other activities.

* Realise you can’t beat the best engineers in the world

* Some ideas to take action about your cognitive exhaustion

* Take out the app from your phone

* Use less efficient networks like Linkedin

* Create a sub culture wihtin your community

* Be humble

* Common feature for happiness being connected with friends, family, colleagues

* Top 6 happiest activities

1. Intimacy, making love

2. Sports, running, exercise

3. Theatre, dance, concert

4. Singing, performing

5. Exhibition, museum, library

6. Hobbies, arts, crafts

Least happy: being sick in bed

* How pondering this space you have or the lack of may help you make bolder / wiser / clearer decisions

* Some nice punchlines: "the movement doesn't have to be justified anymore, steadiness does"

* Also an attempt to answer why are we busier? where is time going? I am sure there are tons of articles trying to think laterally but Hartmut Rosa avoids the usual suspect

* Technical acceleration can’t be the root cause as it is technically freeing time

* Culture, social norm and the exponential nature of multitasking is to be studied!

* Why referring to an unfair advantage when Seuqoia supports start-up founders?

* It is a great sales argument but also a great stance to acknowledge and leverage your unique advantages

* Hone your unfair advantage

* Crystal clear to me yet some thoughts:

* You don’t have to work too hard, you can aim at preserving and honouring what’s there

* Surrender

* Feeling of permanence, always a safe space/state you can go back to

* When someone is expected to visit your house or your accounts, you make them clean and tidy!

* How about anticipating it and enjoying the benefits

* You can also clean up and dress up an idea by sharing it in a “Time To Think” manner as described in this past episode

* It calls me to

* stop agitating

* avoid busyness. BTW, how is busyness serving you?

* deep uninterrupted work and quality time

* Design your life with breathing spaces, time to seize opportunities and time to follow up on bouts of enthusiasm

* Don’t chronically operate at full capacity

* Would these 3 minutes of attention to what I shared trigger any new thought?

* Part 1 from Star Wars - Episode 1

Qui-Gon Jinn : Don't center on your anxieties, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration here and now, where it belongs.

Obi-Wan Kenobi: But Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future.

Qui-Gon Jinn: But not at the expense of the moment.

* Part 2 from Netflix’s show the last dance

* Why bother thinking about tomorrow’s game since it won’t have any impact?

* Just lower the stakes on starting an activity, you will make your life easier

* Also has to deal with your identity as James Clear describes in Atomic Habits

Uta Hagen

* Connect to your natural rythms

* Overcoming is not giving up, too much vs too little routine

* Get the pleasure from delivering one single purified task

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* Enforce some productivity tips

* Production and connection slots, every day

* Physical activity

* Sleep

-        Compounding effect of 1 hour every day is huge as described by James Clear (Atomic Habits)

-        Crystallise new thoughts

-        Beautiful spaces to discover fresh ideas and non-formated thoughts

* Productivity = your output, what you deliver / time spent

* Productivity discussion is often leaving aside the quality of the output

* Alternative 1 spend less time = you are more productive

* Alternative 2 decrease the necessary output what you produce = decrease what you spend 

* We’ll dig further 

* Sleep right 80% of the time

* Get natural light early in the morning

* Ensure low light in the evening

* Do what's right for you :-) and make baby steps

* Do fewer things

* At natural pace

* Obsess with quality

* Rather look at the dynamics and embrace your model

* Anticipating is wasting a lot of energy and doesn’t make sense

* I have chosen to focus on the quality of my daily life

* How about creating peak moments in your daily life?

* The first act towards it is to stop

* “I am not being woo-woo but… I am”

* Draw a new line between old woo woo based on false facts and new woo woo based on empirical data and rational thinking!

* There is something about identity that can hold us back when embarking on a change journey

* Implementing easy habits aligned with desired identity changes it all

* Outgrow fancy acronyms and stop setting yourself and your organisation achievable goals as described in SMART to avoid side effects

* Learning comes from great experiences and the ability to learn and integrate from them

* How many books left to be read? How many swims? How many times will you see your relatives again?

* You may want to take action especially on your relationships

* Tim Urban’s post https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

* Test this simple tool in 10 minutes

* Creating a new space than can be a future resource

* Take action upon meaningful interactions

* “Greatest joys are happening right now and things that happen in the future might not happen at all” from Shotgun Story podcast episode with Jennifer Eaves. I recommend listening to some episodes about indie music creators in South Africa.

Photo: my son and a friend in a cold river in France

* One of the only autonomous body system we can control so easily

* Takeaways

* 95% breathing through the nose for optimal intake  

* Breathe with your belly

* Slow down your breath pattern

* Some guided meditations from Wim Hof

* Test a deep inhale and sigh x5 

* Rest and recovery happen to be the new winning formulas for advanced athletes

* It is not about strategies you develop to do more but actually about what you don’t do

What I am talking about

- Coaching is simply better than consulting (hold on trainign and consulting does deliver value as well :-) ) 

- Issues with traditional consulting

* Solving the wrong problem

* Giving an advice not relevant to the person

* Implicitly telling the person “I am better than you”

What I am taking about

- Being silent and staying curious can be a lifeline

- It could help with conflicts

- It could help and create a better environment

- How to implement to yield Pareto style?

What it is about and links

* Voice note inspired by Vincent Rossignol

* Outgrow fancy acronyms and stop setting yourself and your organisation achievable goals as described in SMART to avoid side effects

* Learning comes from great experiences and the ability to learn and integrate from them

Show notes

* “Don’t be right be sure” Robert Timmis (his Linkedin profile)

* What is your take?

* It brings to me:

* a way to escape binary thinking

* keeping me on my toes

* connecting me to my emotions and shutting down the rational self

* this is about me and my close ones as well

Show notes

* Sleep is under threat

* What if sleep was your default state?

* Monitor the key factors (they are obvious) but just set the intention to make it right and things will flow

I coach globally (my practice website)