275 GIDG Scheduling Lots of Meetings and Staying Sane
Modern Mentor
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.3 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2013
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
When you're in a job that demands marathons of meetings, here's how to make sure you stay on the top of your game as you dive into the meeting madness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more. |
| 0:09.0 | Scheduling lots of meetings can be difficult. Recently, I created a coaching program based on my TEDx talk called |
| 0:14.8 | Living an Extraordinary Life. Part of an extraordinary life is getting what you want out of it, like |
| 0:19.7 | J.P. Lix's Oreo ice cream |
| 0:21.3 | cake, instead of getting what you don't want, like Chitland's flavored ice cream cake. |
| 0:26.0 | I decided to interview everyone who is interested in the program to make sure that their needs would get met. |
| 0:31.5 | What a great chance to show off my awesome skill at running meetings. |
| 0:35.2 | I'd always admired people who successfully held many meetings |
| 0:37.7 | with many people. Professors schedule hundreds of students in their office hours. Injurefewers, |
| 0:43.2 | they talk with dozens of job candidates. Salespeople engage dozens of prospects. Now I was going to |
| 0:49.4 | join the ranks of the marathon meters. I blocked off calendar time and I let people schedule their own |
| 0:55.8 | half-hour meetings. In our meeting, we would get to know each other at the deepest level. We would |
| 1:00.7 | bond forever, and we would decide whether the program was right for them. Soon, the meeting time I |
| 1:07.2 | had scheduled and had filled up, so I blocked out more time. Eventually, I had |
| 1:11.7 | 51 back-to-back half-hour appointments. This was gonna be great. Day one, 16 appointments in |
| 1:19.2 | eight hours. I grabbed a 64-ounce sports bottle full of water, always take care of your voice |
| 1:24.0 | when you plan to do a lot of talking, picked up the phone and I dove right in. It was exciting. My prospect was excited. I was excited. The call went great. The next call was |
| 1:33.7 | exciting, too. And the next. The excitement was palpable. I could feel it. Wait, wait, |
| 1:40.4 | that feeling isn't excitement. That's having to go to the bathroom after drinking 64 ounces of water in an hour. |
| 1:47.0 | But the next call is coming in now. What to do? Well, thanks to trainer Tyler, I've been a manly man for years. I can hold it. |
| 1:56.6 | More meetings. I got more and more excited. Or maybe that was bladder pressure building. |
| 2:02.2 | Relentlessly. Soon that was joined by another strange feeling. A hollowness, an emptiness. Existential angst? |
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