Helene Segura, CPO®

The Inefficiency Assassin | Helping 10–100 person teams recover up to 30% of their week without burning out | Best-Selling Author | Coach | Keynotes & Workshops

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Who are you when the work stops? More and more people do not want to retire, and it is not the money. They have no identity outside of work.
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[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Write your top three personal priorities right now. If they are really front of mind, you are already done.
Most people are not.
And the name at the top should be yours. Same reason you put your own oxygen mask on first.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Daily items on top of the desk. Less often in a drawer. Rarely, nowhere near it.
Same rule as hiking. You have to reach it without stopping to dig.
Then process what came in today, today.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

A lot of us speak in ESP and expect people to read between the lines.

On the Camino I had to decide how much weight to carry alone. Same at home.

Celebrate first. The review of what went wrong can wait.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

The average office worker loses six weeks a year looking for things. Files, the toner, the staples.

Add the holidays and you are working ten months and searching for the rest.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

James Bond can fly the plane and drive anything with wheels.

He still has a team.

Next time you decide to carry a project alone, remember that even he does not.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Celebrate everything, however small. Kids to school on time. Four calls made.

Then look at what went wrong and fix it for tomorrow.

That order matters.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

You wrote 15 hours of work onto a day with 90 minutes of open time.

Then you were upset you only crossed off one thing.

The list was fine. The estimate was missing.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Friday afternoon question check.

"Where did my time go?" means you lost the week.

Ask where your time needs to go next week instead.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

People hold up an empty calendar and joke that those are their time blocks.

Mostly they are not joking.

A little structure beats a fully reactionary day. Leave room for the unexpected.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Who is at the top of your priority list?

Sleep and healthy meals go on my calendar first. Not selfishness. Sequencing.

An unhealthy you does everything else badly.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

When the fire drills will not stop, pause, breathe, and say this to yourself.

I will tell my time what to do.

You have had that power all morning. Most of us forget to reach for it.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

@SewaBeats @yourLTEN @jandis_price @ResourceMax @acuitygd @NazillaKhanlou Have a great rest of your week!

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

"Scientific proof women multitask better than men."

So I read the actual study.

Same single task, identical performance. Two demanding tasks at once, men drop 74%.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

"I work better under a deadline" means "I enjoy the cortisol."

Long term that is high blood pressure and a slower brain.

Not the flex you think it is.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Thanks for the likes! @upk_ck71 @bigmikesbeard89 @argumentree Have a great rest of the week!

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

@Jaymin_Vyas Thank you for reposting!

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

When you wait for the people who are late, what are you training them to do?

Be late.

Start the meeting at 2:00.

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

“I’m viciously protective of my #time.” — Kris Dehnert, @DugoutMugs
It’s not selfish. It’s smart.
🕰️ See how protecting your time can change everything — read the blog today.

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#QulityOfLife #WorkLifeBalance #Leadership

[Helene Segura, CPO® @LivingOrderSA]

Lost time does not disappear in clean 3 hour blocks you would notice.

It leaks. A minute here, two minutes there.

And it adds up to 3 hours a day.