Podcast Episode Details

Do Your Homework

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Season 4 Episode 539

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Today, we discuss getting ahead of the urgent by doing your homework, as well as communicating when schedules slip.

• Live with The Humble Mechanic and John Willis, Tuesday at 12:30 CT
• Microclimates Webinar with Kerry Brown, Sunday, March 13 at 3pm Central
• SelfRelianceFestival.com

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Road food fail
• STILL SEEKING to reorganize the freezers
• Reconfiguring the above chest freezer storage this coming weekend
• Lots of green beans to eat - not sad about this
• Scored a beautiful Bok Choy from the Stoltzfuss farm at Rogue - so nice to have something fresh to cook

Forage this Week - not much has changed

• Watercress (but flooding)
• Dead nettle
• Chickweed
• Dandelion greens

Operation Independence

• Post Rogue Assessment - lost money - next steps (Profit was -$455)

Main topic of the Show: Do your Homework

We haven't had a hard conversation in a long time. You know the one I mean - the one I mean. The one where we are honest with ourselves.

Just got back from Rogue - got me to thinking about doing my homework (explain the coffee situation there and what we did)

Then starting thinking about SRF 1 and 2 and ways we could have better equipped sponsors, vendors and attendees with information in advance of the festival and realized we had more homework to do as well as a 9 hour drive.

I am very good at handling changing demands of an event with grace, but if I do my homework, there are fewer of these issues.

What do I mean by doing your homework?

• Post meeting follow ups the same day
• Preparing a thank you note in advance of an event where one will be needed gets that small but important task done
• Thinking through big projects and identifying production needs, then doing them BEFORE deadline
• Looking into the background of people and things that you must know about to be successful (SRF Speakers)
• Establishing project goals and planning how to achieve them
• Setting up systems so that post event items get cleaned and stowed efficiently

The list is endless. And therein lies the rub. The key to finding success and easing your life by doing your homework is knowing which homework you truly must do.

If you don;t change your hvac filters, you end up with a huge mess.

Likewise, if you do not thank your sponsors or other supporters, you damage the relationship. And usually these kinds of problems stem from not doing your homework in advance.

Usually these things keep us from doing our homework:

• Fear of failure
• Overcommittment or overwhelmedness
• Disorganization
• Distraction
• Published on 3 years, 9 months ago