ChrisPosterous

Great articles on handling project/work stress. If only I could heed the advice. LOL

A quick look at Safari 4.0 via ZDNet

BROOKSVILLE, FL — The clerk at the 7-11 in Brooksville must have done a double take when Brittany Gariepy walked to the check out counter. She had an obvious bulge in her britches where there should not be one on a woman. The clerk suspected shoplifting and called Hernando County Sheriff’s deputies. Gariepy was arrested for shoplifting a Big Mama’s pickled sausage. Har! A Big Mama’s Pickled Sausage!

Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

Burnout is a psychological response to “long-term exhaustion and diminished interest,” and may take months or years to bubble to the surface.

A List Apart: Articles: Burnout

How can people reduce stress in their jobs?

The stress will mainly come from insecurity about keeping your agreements, many of which are with other people but all of which are with yourself. The key is to capture, clarify, define, manage, and constantly renegotiate those agreements. It means staying organized objectively with all the moving parts in front of you in some trusted system, always available for review and regrouping, without overly structuring the plan (everything changes!) Most professionals have between thirty and a hundred projects with almost two hundred next actions associated with them, at any point in time. And any of that kept solely in your head creates stress, because psychic RAM is a crappy office with limited space! Write everything down, and decide the next physical action on any part that can have forward motion made on it. Keep all that in a trusted system, and keep it in front of your mind as often as you need, to get this stuff off your mind and moving productively. There is usually an inverse proportion to the amount something is on your mind and the amount it’s getting done.

Food For Thought
(Reprinted from an interview with David Allen on the topic of stress)

copyright David Allen