10 life lessons to live by.

Make peace with your past so it won’t mess up your present.

What others think of you is none of your business; don’t let people who don’t value you “rent space ” in your head.

Time doesn’t heal all wounds; it just brings distance.

Own your life; don’t blame others for your choices.

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.

Don’t judge others; you don’t have the right.

You don’t need to know all the answers. You need to know the right questions.

Trust yourself if you want others to trust you.

Change is part of life; hit acceptance.

Finally, to paraphrase Mark Twain…  Don’t expect anything from life; it owes you nothing…it was here first.

How to avoid killing people with meetings

What are the top 10 things that frustrate people about attending meetings?

1.  Doesn’t start on time or finish on time.
2. No clear purpose or objective; no specific action items or walk-away points
3. Not inspiring or motivating.
4. Not organized. No agenda.
5. The meeting is too long.
6. Repeating information for late arrivals.
7. The presenter is monotone, and rambles on repeating the same comments and thoughts
8. Boring
9. The meeting is information that has been present before i.e. repeated at the last meeting
10. Meeting for meeting sake. (It’s Monday so we have to have a meeting, even if we have nothing to meet about.)

Life is too short to be killed by meeting!

 

Meetings should be an opportunity to connect, learn, encourage, and inspire.

So how do you make your meeting better for everyone?

Respect your attendees by being prepared, communicating clearly, and valuing their time (Time is valuable commodity).

Don’t read your PowerPoint your attendees can read; think about this, if everything is on the PowerPoint what’s the point of the meeting?

Make it about helping them be better as a result of the meeting not a time to complain about bad behavior.

Make your meetings interactive

Participate.  Don’t just run the meeting be a part of the meeting

Keep it short and sweet.  If you need more time make it a workshop and make sure everyone knows they need to block out more time.  Meetings should be short information sessions.

Make it fun

Encourage people to ask and answer questions and be a part of the discussion where you can.

Be on time, finish on time

Remember, don’t kill people with meetings the fewer meetings you have the better life will be for everyone.