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🗓️ 14 May 2020
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For years I struggled with unaccountable time. The idea that there were situations where I was alone and not accountable. But it's a myth. All time is accountable. It's measured. It's limited. And we ALWAYS choose how it's spent.
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0:00.0 | Porn Free Radio, Episode 2.31, The Myth of Unaccountable Time. |
0:06.4 | So many years ago, when I first became a manager, I had an employee who worked for me. |
0:13.4 | And, you know, I had been promoted to the manager. |
0:16.6 | So at one point, I wasn't this guy's manager. |
0:21.5 | I was like a buddy. |
0:23.2 | You know, I was like a coworker. |
0:25.0 | And so I became his manager. |
0:27.5 | And we were in marketing, and marketing had a reputation in our company for coming in late. |
0:35.4 | It just was, you know, kind of par for the course uh but this guy |
0:41.2 | he came in even later than the rest of us um kind of conspicuously late uh i mean we're talking |
0:48.7 | sometimes 10 a m uh i think i've even i even saw him come in at 11 a.m. once. I mean, it's ridiculous, right? |
0:57.8 | He's a good guy, though, and he kind of knew this is a challenge. And so one day we're walking |
1:03.1 | over to Starbucks, and he said, hey, you know, I need you to help me be accountable. |
1:17.6 | And the way he said it, I was like, man, I don't think this is the right attitude. This isn't the right way to approach this situation. |
1:21.6 | And I gently said this, you are accountable. |
1:25.6 | Like I'm your manager. |
1:28.6 | When I do your review this year, |
1:31.4 | I can't not account for this. |
1:34.8 | I can't not, |
1:36.5 | I can't ignore this. |
1:38.2 | This is pretty obvious to everybody. |
1:42.0 | And I share that example because I think that guys in recovery have this idea that there's |
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