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Michael Port PBS TV Interview for One On One w/ Steve Adubato

This is a TV interview I did for One On One with Steve Adubato. It’s about 10-minutes long. Usually TV interviews are fast and furious and about sound bites. This show is better than that. We had time to sit down and really talk. I enjoyed it very much. I hope you do too.

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Are you swamped?

By Coach Sharon

I’m sitting here serving jury duty and can’t do my regular routine. (I’m not opposed to doing my civic duty, it’s just the timing.) Sitting here is leaving me feeling swamped with my To Do List and sucked-under… lots to do, plus it’s finally summer here in Oregon (we get so little summer, it is hard to buckle down.) Well, what to do when surrounded by quicksand, alligators and swamped…. First, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have concluded that “a person trapped in quicksand is not in any danger of being sucked-under completely, that is, as long as they don’t flail around….” Flail around? So, that would mean movements without forethought cause the “trapped” to sink deeper. That would suggest it best to stop struggling before the “quicksand” pulls you deeper and ask, “How did I find myself knee-deep, right here, right now?” Once you remember what got you knee-deep… determine a firm bottom-line for what you will and will not accept. Often times, that involves setting and maintaining boundaries with people. Stay focused on this bottom-line. It is all too easy to be re-sucked into those old defeating attitudes and behaviors. This isn’t always easy. The quicksand research states that the “required force to pull a foot out of quicksand is about the force needed to lift a medium-sized car.” Sometimes it feels that way when you are trying to change long-held habits too. Stay strong! When looking for that new bottom-line consider: • What am I demanding or not demanding of myself? • What will I accept and no longer accept in my life? • What do I aspire to be? Not desire, ASPIRE Accept where you are now (No fantasy thinking allowed.) Stop the momentum Prepare for new direction Innovate and integrate Review all possibilities Envision, Enact and Enjoy Remember it’s not where you start–it’s where you finish! Have a great day whatever your adventure! To Success! To Life! Sharon No Comments »

Multi-tasking or Multi-time-taking

By Coach Sharon

I just read an article by Joel Spolsky on multi-tasking and computers. He really opened my eyes to the downside of the law of exponential growth. For years, yes years, I thought I was getting more done by doing multiple things at once. Seems efficient, right. WRONG! It really does take more time to do multiple tasks then to do one task at a time. Now, Joel is a computer guy—develops software. He has a great analogy that even a non-computer person can relate to, so I will paraphrase it here- “…You have two computations to perform, A and B. Each computation requires 10 seconds of computer time. You can either do computation A to completion, then B (one after the other) or you can multi-task. For the sake of this argument, let’s say, if you ask the computer to multi-task, having task A run one second, then switch to task B for one second, then switch back to task A for one second… and the task switch will take no time at all. Now, we all know that never happens when we perform tasks, getting “back up to speed” does take time, but play along… In both cases, you have to wait 20 seconds to get both of your answers to A and B. But think about how long it takes to get the results to each (A and B) computation. With multitasking, the results take 19 seconds to arrive… yet with sequential processing each result, A and then B are ready in only 10 seconds each. He takes his computations further and assumes each task switch would take one-minute. So, the computer would use 80 seconds when doing A and then B sequentially (20 seconds for the two, A and B tasks and 60 seconds for the switch)… a little over a minute. But this is what happens in multi-tasking, add the 20 separate one-second tasks and 19 one-minute switches. (20 seconds + 19 task switches = 1160 seconds) That’s OVER nineteen minutes!” Consider the exponential growth factors… Enough said! No more multi-tasking for me. Thanks Joel, to read the whole article and learn more go to http://www.bookedsolidu.com/7d1 Have a great day whatever your adventure. To Success! To Life! Sharon No Comments »