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[mitigatingchaos]

Coincidence?

Looks like it’s going to be a little humid in South Carolina this weekend.

Maybe as much as 5″-8″ inches of rain. . .  that’s humid.   

I switched weekends off because the band was supposed to play at an outdoor festival on Saturday, but it has been postponed a week, which is good.  Electric guitars and rain are not good friends.

I suppose there isn’t much I can do out in the yard, aside from…

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[booksunlocked]

Review: Time Management Magic by Lee Cockerell

his book centers on primarily--you guessed it--time management skills. This is an interesting twist on the topic, though, due to Cockerell's history with Disney, and before that, with Hilton and Marriott. Now Cockerell ekes out his living giving motivational speeches and writing books about customer service, and now time management. It's nothing ground breaking, but it was a fresh take on the topic. I was interested in this book because as a law school student, and just generally a human being in today's society, I feel like I'm always pressed for time, as evidenced by the tardiness of this review (my bad y'all). While I can't say that this revolutionized the way that I'm managing my time, it definitely made me consider how little time I spend planning and managing my days. This book definitely drove home to me that spending the time to plan out your next day pays dividends in the future when you wake up knowing what your tasks are. I'm still working at adopting the majority of his system, but it's a work in progress!

Read the full review at Books Unlocked!

[cjburns-blog]

4/27

Listened to episode 186 of the Smart People Podcast on Time Management w/ guest Lee Cockerell.  Lee is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort. There wasn’t really much about time management until the last 12 minutes though. A few insights:

“Change can happen in either one of two ways: through discipline or through crisis.”

I need to get disciplined and not wait to be motivated by panic or crisis to make a change.

“Insecure people overreact.”

Its been my experience that this is absolutely true. Cockerell was referring to bad business leadership but I think this applies in many different cases. I think the best way work on this is to figure out what animates you, or what stimuli can possibly cause you to overreact. Then reflect on why it animates you. Is you reaction justified? Are you being rational? Is your response proportional? Perhaps an extreme reaction is justified ...or perhaps there’s something inside you that you need to work on. I tend to be very stoic because I realize being upset really only hurts me and doesn’t change much around me. I contrast this with a friend of mine who I once saw beside himself with rage simply because someone put a bowl (that he didn’t consider to be a dish) into a dishwasher. Its incredibly silly to get angry over minuscule things. If that’s your reaction to Tupperware, then what’s your reaction to say... mass murder? I’ve found that when you are normally calm or cheerful, then the times times when you are in fact visibly upset people will care more.

“At the end of each day write down 3 things that made today a good day.”

I need to work on this. I doubt I can look back on the past few days and say definitively that I had a “good” day. Sure with some incredibly low standards I could say 1. The Spurs won... 2. Game of Thrones was dope... and 3. The dinner I fixed was good. But somehow I feel like this is cheating. I think what should make a day “good” should be (1) my interactions with others and (2) successful progress in my productive works. Otherwise I’m stagnate and thus the day was a waste...

[arcchurches-blog]

"You can have a good church, or you can have a great church. It’s a lot more fun to have great.” - Lee Cockerell

Lee Cockerell retired from his position as Executive Vice President of Operations at Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts in 2006. In this session at this year’s Seeds Conference, he spoke about 39 rules of customer service - something his company is so well-known for. Lee’s teaching will open your eyes to some incredibly useful perspectives on how your church serves the people of your community and how you serve your team.

[jmadl]

Be the same person 24 hours a day. Don't change when you come to work. Sometimes leaders act unnatural at work. Treat everyone with respect. Be humble. You are there to help support and inspire your team, not to tell them what to do. Tell them the outcome you want and they will figure out how to deliver the results.

Lee Cockerell - Leadership Thoughts