Don't Give Yourself Permission to Focus on the Most Important Thing

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Uga: You have to get comfortable living next door to the understanding that you are deftly not going to get to everything on your list ever again. And it's a tough transition to make, because especially people who are highly conscientious do a great job and value accomplishing cont of all the things they see in front of them. Uga: i am doing the pushing bit, which is great, but here maybe it has just caght me in a really bad weak which i onsb i feet. Lik, we're duking each other. Ot a, iht on that. Ye elasan.

If you're like most data workers, you probably spend a little bit of time reacting to and servicing data requests, a bit more time on some larger analysis projects, and then you've got a big pile of free time where you're wondering what else you should be doing. Oh. No? You're absolutely drowning in work and questioning whether you're actually providing value? Yeah. That's actually much more common. We were just kidding with that opener. The great news, though, is that Emilie Schario joined us to talk about different tactics (strategies?) for finding the capacity to do more and better work, regardless of your level in your organization. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.