Getting things completed—one of my mentors used to say, “The pregnancy is wonderful, if only baby didn’t have to be born.”

Nancy continued, “While doing this, I have supervised remodeling of house, got H&M off on cruise, fixed dinner for my roommate and visited with her, and done many coaching sessions.

“I give my friends and clients impression that I am serene and unruffled (or so they say) but you wouldn’t BELIEVE what I accomplish in a day. I recommend good mental and physical health habits and elimination of toxic people and television.”

MY WORK IS MAJESTIC

The most amazing thing about this experience with Nancy was her passion. She emailed me at one point: “A website is a majestic thing and deserves full attention of someone who knows how important it is to get your message across.”

One of things she’s best at is ‘getting’ who you are and putting it into web site. I think this is because of focus. She’s into other person and project, not self-concerns.

BLAMING & SHAMING

In this team project, there were changes in direction, call them snafus. The name I’d chosen was being use so logo had to be changed. “Great!” Nancy emailed. “How about this?” The photos she originally chose turned out to be too expensive. “How about these?” she replied, sending 3 new ones.

I’ve worked on many teams, and biggest time-waster and energy-drag is those disgruntled sighs, rolling of eyes, throwing hands up in air, labeling things as “mistakes” and assigning fault. Comments such as Why didn’t you tell me beforehand… There was a miscommunication…You said you wanted … If you’d said that in first place … Subtle or blatant, they accomplish nothing and exhaust us.

Change it, fix, it, keep it flowing, was our motto. We didn’t waste time analyzing, blaming, naming, shaming.

Are you overwhelmed? Many of my coaching clients and friends are. You can take some tips from Nancy, on how to declutter, and here’s one from me—when you surround yourself with people like this, life sure goes a lot easier! Declutter your project team!

My website? I wish we could still be working on it. How often do you say that when you’ve finished working on a project with someone? How often can you say “It was a pleasure working with you” and mean it?