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| Jul 24, 2005 11:27 pm |
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Advocating for yourself |
Stephanie Frank
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If any of you work with other people or partners, you may be to begin to help them understand how you work best.
I recently had to begin (for the first time) to really advocate for my own work style, language and work style when a partner who is highly task oriented asked me to work on several projects at once.
All of them important, and it put me over the edge when he showed me a Gantt chart (yuck!) of the projects.
We sat down immediately to discuss how our different brains work, and I'm so grateful for all of the study I've done over the past 5 years. I showed him my mind map of the promotion of the book, and he'd never seen anything like a mind map.
In the end, he still tried to schedule me for 8 hours of sitting at the computer tasks in 4 hour chunks for 2 weeks, which he thought would be heaven and VERY productive. I consider that like going to jail and refused to do it his way. We came to the conclusion that I could do the work in 2 hour chunks (I'll still set my timer for shorter chunks)
The reason I'm telling you this is that you can't expect other people to understand how you work best, it's up to you to set boundaries and not bend to others' wishes.
Stephanie
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Stephanie Frank
Author, The Accidental Millionaire
http://www.AccidentalMillionaire.com
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