Self Management

I'm on my way home after presenting a session this evening at work. It was on time management and was to a group of women engineers at work. 

I realized as I was sharing my lessons learned about figuring out the root habits to address that I was probably one of the most advanced professionally. That I was the role model. It's strange to realize that I've transitioned to this position in my career. Even though it has happened slowly over time. It was like that time in sixth grade when I realized my role with my parents had flipped when it came to math. And I'm just now finally feeling like an adult to be honest. 

I left work with one of my staff (technically she's in a different department now). And someone I know thinks of me as a mentor. She shared how she really found the talk useful and loved how I had weaved in personal anecdotes. It was one of these things that I could have easily spent a day on but only spent max two hours pulling together. I was practicing my good habit of fitting the time to the task instead of letting the task go on endlessly in search of perfection. The Parkison Law is at play. The other thing I talked about is decision fatigue and spotlight effect. Interesting to see the science behind things.