Why Set Constraints

Posted January 30, 2008 in Life, Management, Starting It, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Technology, Leadership, Innovation, 9 Comments »

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Think of a 6th grader.

  • Her full-time job involves 8 hours of school a day.
  • Then, she practices with her basketball team for 2 hours.
  • She then has 3 hours of homework every night.
  • And on the weekends, she has 5 hours of ballet.
  • Don't forget her daily chores and acting as therapist to her BFFs in boy-crises mode all-day-everyday.

And yet, she still manages to:

  • Eat a hearty dinner with her family, nightly.
  • Hang out with friends at the mall.
  • Watch her favorite TV shows.
  • Chat up her little buddies online.
  • See movies.
  • And, still go to bed at 9 p.m. every night.
  • ...to sleep a ridiculous 8 hours.

Oh, and she remains the same jolly-joyful-upbeat hip-hip-hooray kid we all know.

@$%^$#@ &^@#&!

We Adults Suck

We're 5% as productive as kids, but think:

  • "We have no time for fun because we have so much work to do!"

Boo.

Schedule Like a Kid

Set constraints for yourself.

  1. Schedule more fun.
  2. Sleep 8 hours.
  3. Challenge yourself to bigger goals.
  4. Increase your daily workload.

Then, see how you just "magically" become 9869048372581 times more productive, and a kabillion times more happy.

Work more. Play More. Live more.

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9 Comments on Why Set Constraints

Hendy Irawan

Posted @ 02:37 AM on January 30, 2008

Killing me as always with Touché.

Great article!

J Maxfield

Posted @ 02:34 PM on January 30, 2008

6th grader? Bah! - just think back to all you got done in college.

Swati

Posted @ 09:52 PM on January 30, 2008

I have to cook. Cooking takes time.

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Brandon

Posted @ 10:16 AM on February 05, 2008

We need more than 1 post a week!

Mike Smith

Posted @ 10:20 PM on February 06, 2008

This article is something I've been thinking about for weeks. Great to see I'm not the only one. :)

The Trizle Team

Posted @ 02:26 AM on February 08, 2008

Thanks for the comments, all!

We've been a little busy with client work, but we'll try to produce those articles more consistently.

-Andrew

CJ

Posted @ 04:59 PM on March 23, 2008

The real issue is that children are LED to the next thing. Everything is optimized for them. Lunch mysteriously appears, rides to and from practice and games DON'T need to be set up, ... in fact, they are productive because a family is a TEAM and the team sacrifices for the young person's good. There is accountability and authority and consequences. There are limited options. Ultimately, the child isn't choosing.

So I think there is a lot more going on than your message here. I would suggest that you dig a lot deeper, and then pass along the bigger wisdom to be found.

The Trizle Team

Posted @ 07:07 PM on March 23, 2008

Hey CJ,

Thanks for your comment. Yes, children definitely wouldn't do their stuff without parental intervention.

But, from the article, we meant something differently (alluding to your "bigger wisdom"): That even a child, with her plethora of tasks, can do so much -- and still get a full night of sleep, and have a pretty good life.

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