Don’t Burn Daylight

The long hot summer. The dog days of August. For Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents leisure days at the shore. We all spend part of the winter dreaming of those scenarios and what we will do different this time so we don’t burn daylight. Suddenly, it’s here and we fall back into old habits. If you are the type that can make two days from one, you do it, but if you are a procrastinator, you whittle away the minutes.

For 2009, let’s learn balance. None of us at DDA are overwhelmed with too many projects (well, except for the designers who are super busy). So let’s each ask ourselves how can we use this slow time wisely. Just as we should not waste our personal time, we should try to think outside the box and come up with productive things to do at DDA to improve our services, our process.

There is a motivational coach named Brian Tracy who says it best: “You must master your time rather than become a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony and inner peace. Perhaps the best question that you can memorize and repeat over and over is ‘What is the most valuable use of my time right now?’ “ If we answer honestly we will become a better, more effective team.

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