 Productive Flourishing Mom and I just finished one of our household rituals: watching the Winter Olympics. Her favorite is figure skating. I’m not sure I have a favorite, but I do have a fascination: curling, where teams slide granite stones across the ice to a target. What fascinates me about this sport is its precision: how tiny decisions in how the stone is thrown and the tiny adjustments that reduce friction between stone and ice (go sweepers!) affect the stone’s trajectory and eventual resting place in the target circle (the “house”). As in curling, friction is often the enemy of our personal or team projects, too. Some of this friction we might not even be aware of, until we see the curling stone of our project slow and stall, rather than reaching the house for a score. In March, the final month of Q1, we often sense the presence of friction even though we can’t identify exactly what’s causing it. We feel that slowdown right when we think we should be speeding up, reaching our groove, and crossing milestones at a clip. Lots of things can create friction for you in your personal projects, or in the work you and your team do together: Unclear objectives (either yours or your team’s) that have you drifting instead of focusing. Not leaving yourself breadcrumbs, so you need to spend more time relearning the project when you start it again. Broken printers (you know the ones). Procrastination, maybe because you’re fighting the air sandwich, you’re not...
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