I usually awaken every morning and get started on what happened while I was asleep and then on what should happen while I am awake. Sounds simple enough ( how I like it ), but as we all know this can get very complicated fast. So when something happens and you are expected to react immediately then you should already have a plan in place for dealing with unexpected and important matters. Like this morning a fellow Blogger wrote about a Charity Album I helped to release on Recession Recordings and I wanted to make sure everyone I knew saw it and linked to it and wrote about it and ectera. Just a quick checklist in your head to make sure you can stay on track and do your best. Here is the one I am thinking of right off the top of my head:
- How Important is this? (How much time should I spend on it?)
- Give yourself a time limit: 30 Minutes
- Do I understand as much as possible about what is going on?
- Focus on Most Important Aspects; Set Quick Goals for your 30 Minutes Focusing on the Important Aspects
- Decide what can be put off for later and consider how it will fit with what you have already done for when the time comes.
- Make yourself a Note or Reminder about what happened and what is left to be done later on.
This way hopefully you can internalize a reaction system so that you can minimize anything you may have to react to immediately and still feel confident about going on with the rest of your day. I know this advice is quite broad in a sense and can apply to a variety of situations, but when I had to apply it myself this morning I also felt about writing about it! Anyway if you have made it this far then I thank you and bid you good day!
UpDate:
Well I thought about it and decided to just lay out what I did real quick with my 30 minutes.
Like I said before I was doing my morning routine when an article had been published on a blog I don’t write for and they were talking about something I had been part of ( linking to me, therefore pinging my site ). So I decided to return to favor and help promote the effort ( Joplin, MO charity music album ) by doing the following things.
- This Blog post (Create Digital Music 06.13.2011) had several functions built -in to help me spread the word.
- FaceBook Like Button (I Liked It and Commented as well.)
- Twitter Button Counter (I Tweeted it twice!)
- Comments (I Commented using the official RR Logo and Site/EMail info as well as some important info.)
- I wrote a quick thank-you on the RR Blog for the article written on CDM
- This Blog post links back to the Joplin, MO article and the main CDM page.
- It also auto-tweets (and then pushes to FaceBook Page).
And now I sit back and watch the stats and see if it helps to get any donations for the victims of Joplin,MO!
Alarana Atelier
Jessica Leza
Recession Recordings