Sentences with phrase «about getting things done»

And you are so blessed to have a husband who is just as enthusiastic as you are about getting things done!

I have spent the last few days being very hurried and worried about getting things done and how can we do this and that and your post this morning put it all in perspective.

It has been said that leadership is about getting things done through others.

I have been dual - booting Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP Pro, thinking about Web 2.0 and XML, and learning about Getting Things Done (GTD).

Credit CPR is all about getting things done fast.

My summer beauty routines are all about getting things done with the least amount of effort and heat.

I was pretty good about getting things done during that time, too.

It's not about a series of running arguments — it's about getting things done.»

PIX11's Greg Mocker will be asking elected leaders and transit officials about getting things done.

In the meantime, don't worry too much about getting things done or getting them done efficiently.

This meant that I had to be super organized and super diligent about getting things done and not forgetting anything.

Talk about getting things done!

While they're aggressive about getting things done, they involve people in those goals and delegate well.

Not exact matches

«Life is all about overcoming obstacles,» Will says, «and quite often you as an individual who has to get over those obstacles... but the truth is, you don't do most things in life on your own.

If we want things to get better, the first step is to clearly understand the problems and then to start thinking about what we can do to shut down the click - bait con artists, viral vultures, and other BS hucksters who are clogging up the critical arteries of the Internet with their cheap tricks and phony features.

But «you have got to be really pessimistic about things that you are doing that may not work» to actually get there, she said.

It's getting to that time when we begin to think about lists of things we should be doing in the New Year.

Some of them got jobs, and a lot of them went successfully into treatment because if you're not spending all your time thinking about how you're going to pay for your next fix, you do have time to think about other things.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

So, you'll have to learn to turn a deaf ear to the complaints about how the new guy or girl doesn't «get it»; doesn't know every single thing on day one; isn't fitting into the system or the culture, etc..

If you mess things up at the start, you'll soon enough get to that awful and uncomfortable conversation where someone will ask you about one of the new hires and you'll say «I don't know» or «the jury's still out.»

We talked to the six finalists about how they get things done.

Are they about how long they had to wait, had to talk to too many people, the price, «your website says one thing but you say something else», «you say it's easy to do business and I can't even get a price», «I didn't know about your warranty», «you don't know what you're talking about» — right?

Secondly, begin every day thinking about the one or two most urgent things that need to get done.

«The first thing we get excited about isn't, What will this do for our business from a revenue standpoint — or, really, from any traditional business standpoint?

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

«The most important thing about a recruiting system isn't what you do,» says Pehl, «but that you have a framework in place to get people thinking about finding people.»

While it's become somewhat out of style to talk about whether someone has «power» or not, the truth is that there are people using power to get things done.

Managers complain about employees who don't get to work on time, can't do simple math, can't run a register — or even worse, misfits who lick taco shells, bathe in the utility sink or do unspeakable things to the nachos.

We are talking about being the kind of leader who can sit down, engage and get buy - in, who can take the authority of the position and use it to work with others to get things done.

«And if that candidate gets to meet the VP or the CEO, they'll be able to ask about the competition and «What are you guys doing versus this thing?»

There are a couple things I don't like, which I'll get into in a bit, so let's jump into what you need to know about the iPhone X.

Often as we get older we get a little clearer about what we don't want in our life, perhaps more clear than we are about the things we do want.

You all know about that morning - routine thing: Everyone raves that waking up early and sticking to your routine will help you get more done.

Instead, many employees became confused about who was responsible for what; as veteran staffer Rachel Murch told The New Republic, «No one knows how to get things done anymore.»

'' (Installing a kiosk) sounds like an easy thing to do, but when you think about all the regulatory complexity, you got ta get it right and do each one at a time,» he said.

When I did my MBA, I interviewed hundreds of women and spent a lot of time doing digital anthropology... going to chat rooms and getting people to talk to me about things they wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable talking about in person.

All of this is being done while trying to simultaneously educate clients on both sides of its business about why anyone should get excited about yet another «paradigm shift» in an online space where someone's almost always hawking the next big thing.

The nice thing about being an adviser is if I don't convince someone, sometimes it has the effect of getting them to rethink their strategy and have a better idea on their own.

Nor has Occupy made any noticeable moves in the realm of electoral politics; and however cynical you want to be about that system, it is still a crucial part of getting things done.

You want to think about what to do in the face of an of these, and if you're trying to get outside funds, having a contingency plan shows that you've considered what to do if things don't go according to plan.

For the most critical decisions — the ones where no amount of data will tell you the right thing to do — I focus on thinking about it and then getting a big, long sleep of eight to nine hours.

I wish I knew earlier on that by sticking with an idea after failing, you are forced to find your own way forward and get back to what inspired you in the first place — whether it's addressing a hole in the market or thinking about a different way of doing things.

If you feel like an apology is due, the worst thing you can do is to wait too long and let your customers get angrier — and tell friends about it.

I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes.

Whether it is getting up early, going for a run or checking in with a friend about your progress, find the things that give you strength and make sure you do them every day.

Getting caught up in things you «should» do is a negative mindset that only clouds your focus and pulls you away from thinking about what you're accomplishing in the moment.

It sounds like a weird thing to get mad about — who doesn't like free stuff?

After all, inevitably problems come up that create dramatic stories about why things aren't getting done.

As he told Eurogamer this summer, «My plan was to do a Kickstarter for about 100 of these things — basically, to get money to buy all of the components required on a slightly larger scale and then send these out to people as kits so they could assemble them themselves using my instructions so they could have the same thing as I had.