What is your working style?

Hi all.

In these last few days Tokyo has been getting much cooler.

How is the weather where you are?


As I told you before, I often travel to the countryside.


Being away from the office, and with poor mobile reception, I am rarely bothered by phone calls.


So far, my assistant has been handling my urgent mails and calls at the office back in Tokyo.


I have noticed one thing about this situation:

Finding my concentration for work is much easier without phone interruptions.


Most of you know already about the scope of my work.


I run workshops, seminars and speech sessions.


So I am constantly working on updating and revising the contents of these events.


I work with some agencies, like training companies, who are very effective at providing good content to me.


This makes my life easier, however, it sometimes takes a little of the fun out my work.


I love that I can create works with contents that are my own, unique.
The expressions and phrases are copyrighted and belong to me.

Those works are like my baby. They are a part of me.

They come in many forms: games, exercises and quotes.


And they emerge through my everyday work: talking to clients, asking questions and engaging with my audience.


But I find I am always trying to do everything at the last minute.


When I can feel a deadline approaching, my concentration shifts and I find the focus to finish my task.


In that case I find I can produce very good quality and good results.


So, it can be good for me to get away because it is easier to shift my mind to focus on the work at hand.


Since recognizing this I have begun to plan my working schedule to fit in with these out-of-town trips, thus allowing me a better environment to concentrate in.


It maximizes my working time and allows me to work faster and more effectively.

What is your working style?


Are you strong at the last-minute or do you excel when you plan ahead?


I sometimes wish I could be the kind of person who plans ahead but it’s just not my technique.


You might wonder, why is this?


Because I do enjoy the pressures of the last-minute rush!


But I learned this on my latest business trip: my creativity is just a plane ticket away.


To effectively use my time and produce new works, a sanctuary in the countryside is just what I would love.

In theory it sounds like a very good solution.


But, of course, in reality there is a concern with a situation like this:


I wish my wife could understand this kind of behavior!





Regards