I’m hitting the ground running today. No time to lose. 🙂 Several of you curious kittens have been asking what I’ll be focused on during these first days as I shift to focus more of my time on Badass Backpacks. 🙂 When there’s so much to get done — how will I make sure to focus my time on the right things? There’s a lot to balance these days … and it starts by focusing on some new habits.
Our HUG, our HUT, and our HUH
We have 3 channels on slack (team collab tool) that I’m going to form a habit using. Our HUG, our HUT, and our HUH.
“Habits eat good intentions for breakfast”
-Hugh MacLeod (see it here)
Each Monday morning and each Friday afternoon, my plan is to check in on our HUG, our HUT, and our HUH. The HUG is our “Heads Up Goals”. These aren’t the big lofty goals that we set at the beginning of the year. Yes, the big goals are important — but the HUG habit that I want to develop is about a different set of goals. The goals right in front of us — these are the things that we need to be done with, so that we can keep moving on our Critical Path(s). Feeling lost in the noise of too much on your plate? Grab a HUG, and check in on where to focus — getting the right things done, so we can keep moving forward. With our goals in mind, the HUT is our “Heads Up Task” list. [altMBA: embrace the emotional labor, and do the hard part first.] Our tasks are mostly kept fresh on a daily basis in my sketch book, but I share them with Rusty often, and we’ll use the slack channel to check in frequently to make sure the tasks are clear. That leaves us with the HUH. The HUH is our “Heads Up Help” board. I got this brilliant provocation shared with me from Matthew Carey the other day.
“Think of the big thing you’re working on right now.
Who’s on the outside that you need to invite in?”
Boxofcrayons.biz – Great Work Provocation
As I had posted recently: asking for help is a big theme of mine lately, and we’ll experiment a bit with the HUH board. A place to post thoughts and challenges where we could use some extra help. We’ve got a lot of work to do, and we will inevitably need to ask a lot of people for their help.
Happy Monday everyone, and cheers to forming new habits.
