Mum brought me up on phrases and sayings destined to shape my behavior. I can tell you, repetition and reinforcement worked like a charm for her. That’s how I still remember that if you bite your nails you’ re gonna go crazy and if you don’t wash your teeth at night, spiders will come and eat the leftovers in my mouth.
A less traumatic brainwashing pill from her was ‘what you can do today, don’t leave for tomorrow’. I recalled that as I left a note to the CEO of a national industry body yesterday at around midnight, after resisting the idea of leaving it until the next day, possibly after a quick final review when i was fresh.
Today I found a response from her. it was time-stamped 4am as she checked mail before going to the airport. She’s already triggered some actions that may end in very exciting writing and speaking assignments for LatinOcean. If I had left it for 9am I would have missed and lost her attention, at least until later (you ever checked emails on the berry and do nothing ’til you can think again?)
So, send that email, make that call, say hi to that contact now. And watch out for those spiders. Happy Friday!
