Brazen Careerist Penelope Trunk offers 4 New Ideas for Becoming More Effective at Work including this one:
Pick a pace that’s right for you.
Today waiting the typical three to five business days for a package to arrive seems like an unbearable amount of time to some people, and news travels in real time — text-messages sent from parties to bloggers at home, ready to post.Alexander Kjerulf self-published his book, Happy Hour is 9 to 5, because he thought the typical publishing cycle was too long. “I’m an impatient sort of guy,” he says. The book sells well on his blog, and he feels certain he did the right thing, for him.
Fast all the time isn’t right for everyone all the time. Adrian Savage, author of the book, Slow Leadership, writes daily on his blog urging people to accept that often workplace success comes from downshifting into a slow gear for a while.
One benefit of web workerhood is the possibility of establishing a working pace that works best for you. But even the most independent of web workers can’t always control the flow of work demands.
Telecommuting employees may be more productive than their in-office counterparts—because they feel compelled to demonstrate that they are doing their share of the workload. Self-employed freelancers get to choose what work they do—but need to choose enough to pay their bills at the same time that they create plenty of opportunities from which to choose.
Have you found a pace that works for you? How do you stick to it while still meeting the external demands of bosses, clients, and financial responsibilities?
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