Watching the Coast Guard work while we work.
Beyond publishing this blog we really are committed to working easy 4 life balance.
If you’ve been following our posts you’ve probably noticed that we like having fun too. Sometimes this means being flexible and doing things outside the box of running a business. When we formed our strategic alliance we decided to have regular meetings, and we’ve been really consistent at sticking to our commitment. It’s such a wonderful way to hold ourselves accountable and stimulate creative synergy. It’s way more fun than having an internal meeting with me, myself and I.
We usually have our meetings on the phone, which requires each of us to be in our offices – or not…. sometimes one of us is on a cell phone, travelling in another city, or country. As long as one of us is on the computer to record pertintent notes it works beautifully. The other day I had another meeting scheduled not long after our call, but it was a 1.5 hr commute away. I pulled out my blue tooth headset jumped in the car and we continued our meeting. It was an extraordinarily productive brainstorming session and we mapped out the next steps for our strategic alliance for the coming months.
What was really interesting to me, is my commute time is usually very unproductive, other than getting me where I need to go. I often get brainwaves for building the business, but seldom record the ideas. The better ones will run in the background of my consciousness, adding to the internal to do list and then to the heap of things not done. Ever notice how we can conjure up far more activity in our imagination than we can ever accomplish in real time?
Anyway, what was exceptional about this drive, was Jacque was on the other end of the phone, to capture our creative ideas. We now have topics for speaking engagements, the next few issues of our newsletters and Catalyst-LIVE radio shows . And it was all incredibly easy and fun!
I highly recommend working collaboratively, or having a business building buddy. It really does make work easier.
Tags: Balance, Business, Creativity, Entrepreneur, Fun, Life Balance, Productivity, Work, Work Life Balance
