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Peter Sorgenfrei explains why a packed calendar can feel empty. He recommends cutting 15-20% of meetings, saying no to nonessential ones, and delegating attendance to make room for work that actually matters.
Peter Sorgenfrei explains why a packed calendar can feel empty. He recommends cutting 15-20% of meetings, saying no to nonessential ones, and delegating attendance to make room for work that actually matters.
So your calendar's full, but nothing feels meaningful. I think all of us have had full calendars or have full calendars in our lives, but if it's lacking meaning, if it's just, you know, one team meeting after the other, one project that we don't really care about, one interaction with a customer or client that drains us from energy, the best thing to do is literally to start saying no to stuff. It is to look at that calendar and say, what are all the things that I actually don't have to be doing? Or what happens if I ask the person who invited me to this meeting to not attend? What's— what happens if I say, hey, I just can't make it? And if you do that, I think quite easily you can remove 15-20% of the time that you spend on stuff that you don't care about and then start putting something in there that you do care about and find some more meaning.
