Mark Your Calendar: Tuesday!

"Tuesday's Child is Full of Grace"
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Why Choose Tuesday?

If you’re looking for leverage, the day called “Tuesday” is your sweet spot. Tuesday is the gateway to a multitude of advantages. As the old saying goes, “It’s all in the timing.”

Productivity fluctuates during the week, so it’s no surprise that Fridays rate as the least productive day for most people in the workforce. The end of the week translates into not only a less professional wardrobe, but also a more casual attitude. Mondays, on the other hand, have taken on a “gung ho” style, with meetings and more meetings filling up organizational agendas. It’s a day when most employees are tired by the end of their shift.

In an independent study conducted by Accountemps, nearly half of Executives who were surveyed said employees hit peak performance on Tuesdays. If you consciously consider social marketing trends, Tuesdays have become a day for promotions, discounts and consumer attractions. Rental videos were among the first products to be heavily promoted as a Tuesday special. If you’re on a budget, Tuesday is the day to treat the family to a discounted meal (all you can eat ribs!), or to a movie. In short, Tuesday is THE day.

Have you noticed that elections fall on Super Tuesdays? Important announcements are arranged for Tuesday media conferences?

So how can you take advantage of the Tuesday Leverage Point?

* If you have an important meeting, a decision to make, a position to negotiate, schedule it on a Tuesday.

* If you want to save money on an outing, check out the Tuesday specials.

* If you’d like to finish an important project, or catch up on the backlog, block off the whole day as your most productive and prolific day.

* If you need to energize your team with a new project, launch it on a Tuesday.

Think Tuesday, Think “Leverage” to get ahead.

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Maggie Chicoine’s column, “The Tuesday File” addresses strategies to get ahead. A specialist in strategic systems thinking, Maggie is a dynamic keynote speaker, Master Coach and writer. Reach her at 1 800 587 1767.

2 Notes from Mother Nature

Nature’s Leverage Lessons

“Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds to flex their trunks and main branches, so the sap is drawn up to nourish the budding leaves. Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way, though we dislike enduring them.” - Jane Truax



Sage advice. Been through any gales lately? Are you itching for longer days and warmer air? Me too!

1. What we know:

Nature is a system, one that has highs and lows, cycles and seasons. We do too. You have your days of calm - even though it's sunny, it's also calm and cold. The storms that blow in usually have a warning notice; are you paying attention to what's happening around you?

One of my favourite quotes is, “What’s most obvious is most invisible.”

Nature’s ways of dealing with growth, stress, frustration and flexibility could guide us in figuring out our problems…but the advice is often invisible. We just don’t stop long enough to “wander and wonder”, listen to our intuition, challenge our own ingenuity, or let go of our “I” ego.

Read that again…it’s important!

2. What Mother Nature Knows & We Need to Learn:

Mother Nature knows about her "operating system". She knows what it takes to blow down some trees in your personal "yard of thinking". She knows how much fertilizer to spread to start up in the spring... let's just say that we all need to have some poop in our lives to get on a roll. That's not such a bad thing! Especially when you know how to use it to your advantage!

What stalls you? What excites you? What's holding you back? What's got you?

#1 TIP TO DO:

I suggest that you draw your "weather map", your personal list of what ticks you off and what moves your ideas forward. You'll see some trends there - some climate changes. Yes, these are metaphors. And using metaphors takes you from what you already know, to what you don't know consciously.

#2 Tip To Do

Keep checking in, because:

Next week, you’ll see another MAG OH ZINE post about “Intersections”, the crossroads of thinking that will emerge as breakthroughs for you. But first you have to write your lists, draw your weather map, get it out of your head and onto a big sheet of paper.

Next Leverage Tuesday, I will serve you some bright thinking on a silver cloud, based on The Medici Effect. It’s all about finding those places where the odd and the obvious intersect. That’s what I help you to do as a Coach on Call, but you can learn to do it all by yourself. Kind of like seeing the moon and the stars, and then noticing a satellite whizzing past the little dipper.

# 3 Tip To Do

What you need to do NOW:

Subscribe to this Mag Oh! Zine (look in the right hand column) and you will receive a complimentary, no strings attached copy of Frans Johansson’s book, The Medici Effect. I literally inhaled it the other day – it’s not often that the whole day whips by reading a business strategy book!

Only if you subscribe, will I send you the link! I urge you to do it now.

Post your comment and let me know what nature’s telling you?

Maggie

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