Hello happy new year! I’m falling out of the habit of weeknoting again! To be honest I’m not sure unordered notes are working for me. For me weeknotes are as much about turning my swirly thoughts into coherent thinking, keeping them swirly doesn’t help me. Anyway work will be changing very soon, hopefully I’ll be able to be able to talk about it a bit more clearly. What’s on my mind this week....
I’m trying to get back in the habit of weeknoting, but I can’t be too specific about the work, so this is the random thoughts I’m dwelling on this week: Progress. Palpable progress this week, it feels good! Not only that but being able to see a semblence of structure emerging. Pitching Selling your wares is a constant thing where I am at the moment, honing those ‘sales’ skills of picking valuable leads, assessing whats a goer or not quickly is a real art....
Continuing the effort of chucking down end of the week thoughts, as an attempt to keep up the weeknote habit, without talking about specifics of the day job. Week 2, go me! Things on my mind at the end of this week: Future of delivery management Heard this week that the BBC are getting rid of their entire delivery management function, which pissed me right off. But after a few days of feeling angry, I became more reflective:...
I’m back at work this month, I’ve found weeknoting this year difficult due to balancing clients comfort with open notes. The situation is unlikely to change in the near future. The thing I miss the most about the process is getting things that are looping around my brain down on paper and in public, this is because: It gets it out of my brain before the weekend! Writing helps me order swirly thoughts People more intelligent than me usually chip in with ideas and answers I haven’t thought of!...
I’ve been a bit naff keeping up the weeknotes cadence in September so attempting a Month note. PD has a bibliography of common phrases, one of them is “laptop in the pond” that feeling when you get to the end of the week and just want to not look at a screen for a while. That’s partially why my cadence has dropped off,publishing to my blog is a bit of a faff....