{"id":8745,"date":"2012-05-29T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2012-05-25T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:34:50","slug":"creating-a-no-excuse-zone-around-you-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=8745","title":{"rendered":"Creating a \u201cNo Excuse Zone\u201d around you Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is Part 1 of a 3-Part article designed to help IT and database professionals stay on top of their game in an ever-changing\u00a0 trade.\u00a0 Part 1 and 2 describes examples of how we inadvertently make excuses for our lack of progress in certain areas of our careers.<\/p>\n

Part 3 offers several steps toward creating \u2018No Excuse Zones\u201d in our home, office and thinking. For more examples that fit your specific work environment, please feel free to contact LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info<\/a><\/p>\n

Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose \u2013 Corporate Exit Strategist for the blooming entrepreneur \u2013 and I am a business and life coach that specializes in Time Management, Project management training and work-life balance strategies.\u00a0 Over the recent weeks, I have met with several clients that got trapped in the \u2018blame game\u2019.\u00a0 Oh, I\u2019m not saying they were intentionally blaming other people or external circumstances for their current situation.\u00a0 But they were relinquishing responsibility and ownership to feel better about their current lack of progress.\u00a0 Therefore, today I am introducing the idea of creating \u201cNo Excuse Zones\u201d in your home, work and life.<\/p>\n

We all have \u2018excuses\u2019 as part of our normal, default speaking and thinking patterns.\u00a0 It\u2019s normal.\u00a0 It\u2019s human.\u00a0 We often entertain ourselves with stories of how we got to where we \u2018don\u2019t want to be\u2019.\u00a0 We do not readily acknowledge these stories as \u2018excuses\u2019 or blaming something or someone external to ourselves for our predicament; we\u2019re simply \u2018explaining\u2019 ourselves. \u00a0But the longer we stay in the \u2018explaining\u2019 stage of the current situation; the longer we are stalled and not making forward progress.<\/p>\n

Take these IT and home situations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My task was to contact 3 hospitals to collect meaningful metrics on these five database features.\u00a0 Only one hospital has responded on only one database features.\u00a0 I am late with this project and don\u2019t know how to proceed.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0I have to review these database reference books and install these new applications, but I have any time.\u00a0 My other two projects are late; therefore, I can\u2019t take the time to catch up on my other to-do lists and application training. <\/strong>It’s just that I have had to put this off because there were other things happening in my life<\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>I don’t think I can get it done by Wednesday<\/em> because I\u2019m waiting on a routine from the California department.\u00a0 They have been unresponsive to my request for status.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m stuck on my project.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0I continually get interrupted at work and am constantly called into useless meeting.\u00a0 I never have time for real work.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0I need to create a work-flow from the meeting we just had.\u00a0 But the facilitator was so antagonistic and rude, that I was unable to ask my clarifying questions.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have enough information to complete the work-flow chart.\u00a0 And the facilitator doesn\u2019t have the patience or time to help me fill in the blanks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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At first glance, these may look like \u2018explanations\u2019 and not excuses. In Part 2, we will detail each example to show how we could have better managed the situation.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in more detail professional coaching or a professional coach to help you stay on target with those goals, please consider one-on-one coaching sessions to propel you forward faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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