Many of us have great intentions, blocking purposeful time with a flourish at the start of the week. But when that time rolls around, we find we’ve allowed a meeting to get scheduled or we use the time to catch up on to-do’s rather than our original project.
I relate this to reserving a hotel room. What if you reserved your room across the country, only to discover upon arrival that they’ve given your room to someone else? They took the reservation just fine – they just didn’t protect it.
P.S. You can view the 30 Days of Meaningful Work calendar in my recent Huffington Post article – click here.
Dr. Christi Hegstad is a certified and award-winning coach, author, and speaker.
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