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#1. Take your next meeting over the phone.This is an idea that came to me first as a rumor and the
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#1. Take your next meeting over the phone.This is an idea that came to me first as a rumor and then t [View online]( [Coach Tony]( Coach Tony [@tonystubblebine]( #1. Take your next meeting over the phone.
This is an idea that came to me first as a rumor and then through personal observation. Iâve had a lot of meetings recently and the audio-only ones are better, more connected, and less exhausting than the video ones.
When I was researching it, I found this [Angela Lashbrook]( [deep dive on the science and reasoning for doing most of your meetings over the phone rather than over video](.
Marissa Shuffler, PhD, an associate professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Clemson University in South Carolina, says part of whatâs so exhausting about Zoom and other video platforms is the sheer number of faces youâre confronted with at once, including your own. âWe donât normally look at every single person when weâre in a conversation; youâre going to be kind of looking around to different people and focusing on one person at a time as youâre talking. So to have everyone on the screen in front of you at the same timeâââit can be very cognitively overloading and taxing,â she says. âItâs that just constant battle to figure out, âwhere am I supposed to be focusing?â It can get exhausting.â
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#2. Walking meetings.
Sarah takes almost all of her meetings on a treadmill because we built her office around a treadmill desk. But Iâm just now realizing that if I move my meetings from video to phone, then I also can walk and talk. Iâll just be on my AirPods.
I love knowledge work, but Iâm also aware that it means Iâm not nearly as active as my body needs. I try to cram all that physical energy into a short virtual bike race. But it would be better to redesign work to include more activity.
Iâve done that a little bit with my Pomodoro 1K idea. Now I often am lifting my kettlebell in between tasks. But taking more walking meetings would be another big step toward a healthy balance of using my mind and my body.
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#3. A poem about (I think) the way we let injuries define us.
Origin of the Marble Forest
by Gregory Orr (via [poetryisnotaluxury](
Childhood dotted with bodies.
Let them go, let them
be ghosts.
No, I said,
Make them stay, make them stone.
For the record, I didnât read or bookmark this poem thinking at all about gun violence in US schools. Rather, it connected with me about the freedom that comes when you let go of childhood hurts. But itâs poetry, interpret it as you wish.
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