Did I accomplish anything today?
Here was my day- not sure a typical day, but thought I would share nonetheless. The important thing to note- only 4 of the “items” below were scheduled. Everything else was spontaneous or general “getting work done” items. Too many meetings planned will equal very few things actually getting accomplished. Here you go:
- 6 am wake up
- at the office by 6:45
- some time for prayer, reading, singing, reflecting, scripture
- 7:15 am catch up on blogs, twitter, and other interesting links
- 7:30 am final listening, editing to the next issue of the Catalyst podcast with Louie Giglio
- 8 am speaker contracts sent out for next event in October
- 8:30 am new ideas/initiatives for 2010
- 9 am email and texts
- 9:30 am meeting regarding some website changes and program/production stuff
- 10 am marketing budgets review
- 10:30 am pick on the interns a bit (and give Chad Johnson a hard time)
- 10:40 am work on an endorsement for a friend’s book
- 10:55 am Creative review/edit for ads
- 11:10 am talk through Facebook group and other social media issues
- 11:30 am call with Ed Stetzer regarding Catalyst October
- noon email
- 12:30 pm meet with Lunch n Learn group and talk about systems
- 1:30 pm work on partnership emails and new marketing channels
- 2:30 pm walk around the office and bother everyone else- waste time; pick on the interns and Melissa Kruse
- 3:00 pm email; lots of responding to emails and also working on a few deals
- 4:00 pm watch some of the behind the scenes/backstage footage from Catalyst West Coast
- 4:30 pm review/edit creative design and copy for tickets and rave cards and new email skins
- 5:00 pm call with Buddy Stone from Stand in the Gap
- 5:30 pm work on To Do list
- 6:00 pm two games of Cornhole with Catalyst team (1-1 by the way)
- 6:30 pm catch up on voicemails, texts and people to call
- 7:00 pm Dinner with Jon Acuff
There you have it. Not sure if that is normal or not. Got several things done, but I am not sure I would give today a satisfactory score in the area of accomplishing anything. More moving the ball down the field.
wow…that’s a lot. I love that “Cornhole” is an item on the agenda…
But you work w/ editing the Catalyst Podcast?
Stephen- yeah, I listen to each episode and if there are things to edit, I let our producer Brian Cole know. He actually does the true editing. I play more of the executive producer role.
Hi Brad–
Do you struggle with keeping a “margin” on days like this?
How do you decide whether to reply to a blog post vs email vs Facebook… Seems like you a man in high demand.
Oh yeah thanks for the google wave link last week… Your team should check out ustream.tv if you are interested in a free service to broadcast live events.
–Dave