I just logged on to write this post and the password box had a “Remember me” check – I took that as my blog saying “Remember me?”. Sorry I have been absent this week – I have a full post in the drafts to publish tomorrow, which I’m sure will light up your chestnuts - but the world overtook me, lapped me twice, then waved an assorted number of fingers as it passed me again.
When we talk about skills and development tools, we talk about how we practice them. You may be a ‘GTD Practitioner’ or you potentially ‘practice productivity techniques’. But ‘practice’ has another connotation - it is what we do when we are learning something and want to get better at it. This is what has always unnerved me about the term ‘Medical Practice’.
This week I have been reminded that the productivity techniques and organisational skills I have, that help fill the vacant time in troughs, and cope admirably with the day-to-day peaks, are still very much things that require practice. At times of great pressure, even those skills you are most comfortable with will yield a little to the onslaught. All we can do is acknowledge, record, and learn – all in the hope that all this practice will help us find that elusive perfection.
