Fitting in by standing out
One of my favorite podcasts is How I Built This and at the end, Guy Raz always asks:
How much of your success do you attribute to luck, or just hard work?
I love thinking about this. Your words manifest your reality so be careful of what you say (and think). I’ve started to reframe and rethink my lucky career breaks and recognize them to be hard work in preparing for that moment.
I had a bracelet made on Etsy that was a simple metal band with the word FOCUS written on it. I wore it so much that it broke and so I ordered a new one.
Today, I got an email from a company that might be the opposite of Macro-Hard about my work collaboration vs focus time. The emails says this:
23 minutes to refocus? I believe it. So many business productivity books I read constantly preach against multitasking. Our brains can’t and don’t multitask. They switch but the switching doesn’t happen as fast as we’d think or like. In fact, according to the email I got, it takes 23 minutes.
For those eagle eye folks, you may have noticed the H is missing from my domain name now. It used to be CaroleenHB.com and now it’s CaroleenB.com.
You wouldn’t think one little letter would be such a big deal but it actually is. I had to migrate my WordPress site to another which entailed:
GoDaddy charges $100 for migration services and I’m cheap. Plus the plugin I chose had limits for the free version and I didn’t want to pay for the paid version (note the cheap comment). So I used the workaround and had to FTP my own files to stay under the plugin limits.
In the end, it took most of a Saturday afternoon but I sorted it out. Plus I flexed some ol’ troubleshooting muscles that I haven’t used in a while. It was worth the savings 🤑
Welcome to the new site! I hope you come back and visit again soon!