Practice This

Traffic jams can be productive too. No kidding.

This post does not encourage doing distracting activites during driving but offers suggestions to utilize traffic jams times.

Working online and liberation is the ultimate goal to hit for any blogger. Until then we are bound to drive our cars and getting stuck in horrible traffic jams. Here are few practices to make traffic jams more productive then just listening to radio and hearing even more useless news.

Work

I make phone calls to key colleagues. Sync on status and action items. I am constantly get surprised how helpful it is. People tend to assume rather ask specific questions and sync. Short phone call clarify misunderstandings and makes everyone on the same page.

I make phone calls to my manager too – surprisingly he gets stuck in traffic jams just like me . Short updates on status with key customers seem to be helpful for him. He usually focuses me on what’s more important for him.

Same with reports – short daily sync phone calls clarify the picture and help focus on what’s important.

All done from my car with 1 Km/h speed.

Family

Me and my wife have an agreement to not call each other when at work, unless it is really urgent. That is why I answer my wife’s calls even when on the most important meeting with most important customer.

On other hand it is super nice to chat with my precious. Traffic jams to the rescue! “You gotta gotta gotta try a little tenderness!!”

Or “I just call to say I love you”.

Blogging

After I made all phone calls I am still in that traffic jam… Millions of thoughts run through my mind – they are all can be cool topic for blogging. How do I write it down while driving? I can’t. My friend, J.D. Meier, uses speech recognition devices. This is what I am going to try next.

Hey, look! Just arrived to my office!

"I’m the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.” – Larry King