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I’ve always been shy about asking people (mostly at work) to either repeat themselves or slow down so that I can write down things I need to remember. Never has any of those people been put off by me asking that of them, and I was told that bosses appreciate it…not the other way around as I’d naturally feared. I used to think that it was “Failure” to have to ask that of people, but it works…and no one gets mad at you for asking. And if they do, they’re the ones being rude, not you.
I’m only just adapting to using my cell phone to remind me of tasks. I think it has an option for voice recorder…if not, my cheap $10 MP3 player has a mic and voice-record capability I should really utilize more often. I gotta get my mind out of the 80’s when we had those little journalist recorders with the mini cassette tapes. I was never so lucky to have one of those, but I did have Soundwave, Ravage, Rumble, and Frenzy…for all you fellow 80’s-kid toy geeks out there. But if I did have one like my sister’s, I would have probably mostly used it for recording “slow” speech so I could use the fast speed option to make it sound like the Chipmunks. In fact, if I had one today, that’s what I’d use it for. So you see my problem is that I goof around with stuff instead of actually apply “helper” technology to make my life more organized.
Hmmm…so why if we’re aware we goof up and don’t “get it done”, we still don’t do anything to correct the problem even when it jumps around in our brain? Anyway, I’m mostly off topic I guess, but I’m on a major hunt right now for workplace advice, and some of this pertains to workplace challenges, so here I am talking everyone’s ear off and thus failing at yet one more thing.
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