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These aren't so much about agility as decision maintenance and hygeine. They may not fit into your agile talk, but give you some perspective of your audience.

Some of my problems are what decisions to make. Many were not even the right decisions. They came down to how to protect myself or not look stupid. From reading your books and working with a SDM book group (project-management-skills.com/decision-making-model.html), I’ve learned to frame those decisions to what I wanted beyond basically hiding and to expand the possibilities in those decisions offer. Just looking at the decision mechanics makes things dry, academic, and mechanical, but the content of our life.

Also, many of my decisions are allocating my time and energy. I’ve found something like GTD (gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/)has been a good way to collect all the emails and stuff coming in, clarifying it into projects that define what I want to be done and the next physical action, reviewing those considering my focus and values (perspective), then using those lists to work. That gives me a system to cue up and make all the small daily decisions. I’ve found that there really are no big decisions; rather, there are small decisions that get you to the big things you want to do and be.

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