When I’m lazy, I get busy–my schedule fills up indiscriminately. When I’m busy, I know I’ve been lazy.<\/p>\n
A mentor advised that “you have to continually fight off those predators that are trying to eat time away from your calendar.” A woman in [Choosing Simplicity](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dF1y9zdTpegC)<\/cite> said that she [wrote “NO” on the top of every week’s listing](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dF1y9zdTpegC&dq=choosing+simplicity&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=fRUpS8zUCYqCswOUjpXKDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=no%20top%20calendar&f=false) in her agenda so that she’d think hard before accepting something to do that day.<\/p>\n One technique [recommended by author Jim Collins](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9Ogzl-3k1eoC&lpg=PP1&dq=good%20to%20great&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q=&f=true) for simplifying your schedule is to [create a “stop doing” list](http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2025-jim-collins-and-the-stop-doing-list).<\/p>\n One year ago I wrote that to be innovative, [it’s sometimes more important what you don’t do than what you do](http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=270). That extends even to removing things that no longer are working.<\/p>\n You have to make room for good things to happen to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I’m lazy, I get busy–my schedule fills up indiscriminately. When I’m busy, I know I’ve been lazy. A mentor advised that “you have to continually fight off those predators that are trying to eat time away from your calendar.” A woman in [Choosing Simplicity](http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dF1y9zdTpegC) said that she [wrote “NO” on the top of every…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-simplicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-X7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}