7/1/2024-Yay, holiday weeks…go nuts!

The hardest part of a holiday week is to actually get something done if you’re working. Setting micro goals for the week will help you be productive and feel good about the slowness of the week.

There’s nothing like the feeling of the start of a holiday week, right? Whether working or relaxing, more oxygen is getting into your lungs.

If you’re working, don’t sleepwalk through the week. Make some progress against your projects that are aging like a fine French cheese.

Whether working on your tactical ToDo list – or using this week’s somewhat quiet pace to focus on your strategic initiatives – be resolute with your focus.

Why not clean your desktop this week? (Brilliant idea, right?)

Remember the mantra: "messy desktop, messy brain!"

Seriously, try these tips:

1. Clean up the docs floating randomly all over your desktop. (Laptop and physical space.)

2. Re-title folders and docs to give you better searching capabilities.

3. Delete stuff from 2004…it doesn’t matter if you got the space for it. It’s clutter.

If cleaning ain’t your bag, you could always prospect. Clients are around this week. Challenge yourself to get a meeting with one of ’em.

You weren’t thinking of coasting this week, were ya??

Good.

‘Cuz holiday weeks invite various opportunities that don’t exist during non-holiday weeks. This week, you might be able to do some thinking.

Certainly, getting more organized is a good slow-week assignment, but it shouldn’t stop there.

Here are three ideas that might make a difference between this week being a good week versus a wow week:

1. Call clients. Yup, pick up the phone. Not every one of your prospects and clients is off this week. Give spontaneity a chance to be rewarded: challenge yourself to get a meeting this week with a customer. Try this, "Hey, maybe you’re not 110% booked this week like other weeks…wanna meet Wednesday at 10a to talk about blah blah?"

2. Socialize with a client this week. Take #1 and replace "meeting" with "lunch" or "drink."

3. Think. Pick something on your list requiring substantive strategic thinking, and then…think! Try this: review your Q3 strategic account plans and grab members of your enablement team who can meet… and have at it. Think together. (And talk, too. Sitting silently together in a room or Zoom while thinking by yourselves would be awkward.) The subtle slowness of the week may illicit more space for ideas and revelations that could unlock some challenges on your stickier challenges.

Celebrate this holiday week by learning a few basic dance moves to the classic Kool and the Gang song, "Celebration."

Or, simply hum along to this catchy tune and let it inspire your cleaning session.