Image via Wikipedia A little explanation: I ran a customer conference last week in Las Vegas. That was it. No regular work, no blogging, nothing. Now that I am recovered (which is relative) I am back to real life. Because of the conference I had an abnormally small number of emails. (I have never texted so much in my life, though!)
I really can’t use last week as a real week, so I revert to my first week, the week before, and this week will be #2.
As you can tell, I really worked at it. Still with only 4 working days during Week 1, I improved a huge amount.
It wasn’t easy, though! Often I would start an email and then catch myself mid way through it. Then the hampster in my head had to kick it up a notch: How do I communicate with this person if I can’t do it through email. I found that I called more, used our internal system more and used Twitter more. Sometimes I found that it was better if I didn’t contact them at all and just waited.
Oh, and what a difference it made on the # of emails I received!
Two other random thoughts:
- Since buying my iPhone I find that I spend more time on that than I do on the computer at home. So nice.
- DO NOT EVER stay at the Flamingo. I don’t care what you do! Don’t give in. Someone else at our company chose this. I had never stayed there, nor did I really know anything about it (or I would have objected). But after the mold, disgustingness, horrible service and ants in the bathroom I will never come close to that place again. And it wasn’t just me – it was almost every single one of the conference attendees (pretty embarrassing to tell you the truth). I thought about creating theflamingomustdie.com, but that is not how I want to be famous. A small book could be created on our experiences – something akin to a bad nightmare. By the way, Flamingo: Hot pink is out.
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