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60 Miles Starts in 24 Hours

by | Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized

Tomorrow morning, Friday 11/4/2010, Jill and I start on the Komen 3 Day.

We will be walking 60 miles to end breast cancer. This adventure started in February this year when Jill (a 6 year breast cancer survivor herself) and I were coping with the recurrence of ovarian cancer in her mother, Diana.

As many of you know Diana lost a nearly two year battle with ovarian cancer earlier this year after being a 16 year breast cancer survivor.

I have been very fortunate in my life to be touched by so many amazingly strong women who have survived breast cancer (each of you know who you are) and my life would have turned out very differently had it not been for you.

There are many others in my life who have survived or succumbed to other cancers as well, my dad, my brother, Janise, Greg, Nancy, Paula, Polly, Chris, Sue, Harry, you all are never far from my thoughts.

But for this weekend, I’m walking in either celebration or remembrance for:
Jill B.
Diana M.
Connie F.
Haven J.
Holly B.
Margaret B.
Paula F.
Sue Ellen

If you’d like Tom omen cheer us on you can go to www.the3day.org and find the route. Friday 11/5, we will be starting at Collin Creek Mall and have lunch at Valley View Park.

If you’d like to donate, please use the link below. In any event I’m going to be tweeting and posting my journey along along the way.

You can follow my tweets here:
twitter.com/ross_sivertsen

Or donate to the 3 Day Here: http://bit.ly/dq6hMV

Quote

by | Nov 3, 2010 | Uncategorized

“We were meant to give our lives away. Spend more time living your legacy instead of worrying about leaving it.” -Lee J. Colan

More Study Data Show That Multitasking Doe Not Lead to Higher Productivity.

by | Nov 3, 2010 | Blog, Uncategorized

I’m beginning this post with a deep sigh (*SIGH*). I’ve long envied the ability of some people to do more than one thing at a time. Multitasking is something I’m just not any good at.

There is plenty of recent study data to support the idea that multitasking not only inhibits productivity but increases lead times to project completion.

This study, of several judges in the Italian court system, shows that in addition to extending cycle times of project completion, multitasking contributes to an increase in the size of work backlog.

We work in an age where knowledge, not industrial work, is the preeminent means of gainful social progress for our civilization. Yet we work in such highly competitive industries, myself included, that the drive to get more done in less time has driven us to the need of being always ‘on.’

I’m not throughout stones here, in the worst offender, just ask my wife.

But it is that much more critical that strive to block out sections of true downtime, where we are completely present in the moment, without distraction, to take a time-out from life, even if forced; where we can take stock of our lives, identify the patterns of habit that are or aren’t working, and just be.

Maybe we can then ratchet down the squelch level and truly identify our dreams and at least get a taste of how are lives can look like something different than living on a harried treadmill…

Here’s my new campaign ‘Stop the Multitasking Madness!’

http://ping.fm/EHZp3