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Great Projects At Home or Work Start With Clear Definitions
How many projects have you started and not finished?
How many projects have we started and not finished? How many have we been a part of at work that didn’t accomplish anything? Yeah, me too. Project ideas are easy to come up with and difficult to follow through on. It is easy to start stuff and hard to bring things to completion. If we truly want to succeed at doing some great things in life, we need to spend time defining what we hope to achieve.
At home, we rarely think of taking our projects seriously enough to follow some basic project management techniques. It’s stuff at home. We aren’t at work. No one defines stuff and puts that on paper. That’s ridiculous. What we do at home isn’t of lesser value. In fact, it could hold intrinsic value to who we are and our purpose for living. It is the place where we should take everything seriously. We should take the time to think through things and come up with clear ideas of what we want to do and achieve.
Work is an amazing place. I am amazed, and shouldn’t be, how casually people take projects. It has to be because we don’t measure stuff. If we measured the amount of time we spend on efforts and how much that costs we might realize that the casual way of managing projects is costing us a lot of time and money…
