Comments on: How Do You Navigate Boring Presentations? http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:52:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chirag http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-342 Chirag Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:36:05 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-342 @Yoga in bathroom stalls? I’ll buy it! =) : LOL If, I am really really bored, I just shut down my self from the presentation and get back to my lists and start planning next steps, what to do ... etc... @Yoga in bathroom stalls? I’ll buy it! =) : LOL

If, I am really really bored, I just shut down my self from the presentation and get back to my lists and start planning next steps, what to do … etc…

]]> By: Seth http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-31 Seth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:42:40 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-31 Susie, Thank you for holding back. If I ever have a blog that requires proof of age-above 21 I'll certainly be happy to see what you come up with for comments. For now, it's anybody's guess. =P Susie,

Thank you for holding back. If I ever have a blog that requires proof of age-above 21 I’ll certainly be happy to see what you come up with for comments.

For now, it’s anybody’s guess. =P

]]> By: Seth http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-30 Seth Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:18 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-30 I'm sorry I brought you back to a less-than-joyous part of your life! Perhaps I simply get bored easily (which is nobody's fault but my own) and as a result I still use these steps often. Yoga in bathroom stalls? I'll buy it! =) I’m sorry I brought you back to a less-than-joyous part of your life!

Perhaps I simply get bored easily (which is nobody’s fault but my own) and as a result I still use these steps often.

Yoga in bathroom stalls? I’ll buy it! =)

]]> By: Susie Blackmon http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-28 Susie Blackmon Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:33:42 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-28 "Do you have any special techniques you use to stay focused when you’d prefer to drift off?" OMG, what a question to ask me to answer in an open forum!! “Do you have any special techniques you use to stay focused when you’d prefer to drift off?”

OMG, what a question to ask me to answer in an open forum!!

]]> By: Diane Whiddon-Brown http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-27 Diane Whiddon-Brown Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:48:06 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-27 Wow, this totally takes me back to the drudgery of my old office jobs. Too many times I fought boredom or sleep. And I totally feel left out because I never once saw a flamingo or got a massage. (sigh) But, I remember always doing something physical. Before a meeting I'd jog up and down a flight of stairs, or do some yoga in one of the bathroom stalls. (Hmm ... there's an e-book there, I think. 9-5 Office Bathroom Yoga - Staying Awake Through Another One of Your Boss's Focus Meetings.) Anyway, fun post. :) Wow, this totally takes me back to the drudgery of my old office jobs. Too many times I fought boredom or sleep. And I totally feel left out because I never once saw a flamingo or got a massage. (sigh)

But, I remember always doing something physical. Before a meeting I’d jog up and down a flight of stairs, or do some yoga in one of the bathroom stalls. (Hmm … there’s an e-book there, I think. 9-5 Office Bathroom Yoga – Staying Awake Through Another One of Your Boss’s Focus Meetings.)

Anyway, fun post. :)

]]> By: Seth http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-6 Seth Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:56:31 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-6 Hi David, I'm with you on the doodling! Just like trying to stay awake to drive a car fully of happily sleeping people is torture, so attempting to focus when all the people around you are playing tetris on their crackberries is a real pain. I've been to quite a few meetings that were called simply because leadership had reached a block and the only thing they could think of to do was to call a meeting. These are the most boring...they also present the best opportunity to make a real difference with some fresh insight. Hi David,

I’m with you on the doodling! Just like trying to stay awake to drive a car fully of happily sleeping people is torture, so attempting to focus when all the people around you are playing tetris on their crackberries is a real pain.

I’ve been to quite a few meetings that were called simply because leadership had reached a block and the only thing they could think of to do was to call a meeting. These are the most boring…they also present the best opportunity to make a real difference with some fresh insight.

]]> By: David Niall Wilson http://sethsimonds.com/finding-focus-in-boring-meetings/#comment-5 David Niall Wilson Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:41:32 +0000 http://sethsimonds.com/?p=190#comment-5 I have to overcome my natural tendency to believe meetings rarely serve a purpose. I find that all too often people have called them because it is a legitimate way of avoiding actual productivity. I realize that I push this too hard, and so I try to be positive in every meeting, and to participate constantly. I also doodle, but have to be careful because if they get too elaborate, I attract my neighbor's attention at the table and we both get busted. David I have to overcome my natural tendency to believe meetings rarely serve a purpose. I find that all too often people have called them because it is a legitimate way of avoiding actual productivity. I realize that I push this too hard, and so I try to be positive in every meeting, and to participate constantly. I also doodle, but have to be careful because if they get too elaborate, I attract my neighbor’s attention at the table and we both get busted.

David

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