{"id":43914,"date":"2016-08-11T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/?p=43914"},"modified":"2016-08-11T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:55:40","slug":"sharpen-your-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/2016\/08\/11\/sharpen-your-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpen Your Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/saw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-43915\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-43915 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/saw-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"saw\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw?longdesc=43915&amp;referrer=43914\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/saw-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/saw-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2016\/08\/saw-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One of my favorite Steven Covey stories from <strong>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/strong> deals with sharpening your saw.\u00a0 As the story goes, a man is in the woods cutting down a tree.\u00a0 A person hiking through the woods asks him what he\u2019s doing.\u00a0 \u201cSawing down the tree,\u201d is the exasperated response.\u00a0 So the hiker asks how long he\u2019s been sawing, and the guy responds, \u201cOver five hours\u2026 and I\u2019m beat.\u201d\u00a0 The hiker suggests he take a break and sharpen the saw.\u00a0 The guy replies, \u201cI don\u2019t have time to sharpen the saw.\u00a0 I\u2019m too busy sawing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t this us in our work?\u00a0 We are so incredibly busy all of the time.\u00a0 We have \u2018to do\u2019 lists on top of \u2018to do\u2019 lists.\u00a0 Just when we think we\u2019re getting to the end of one list, ten new items pop up that we need to address.\u00a0 We rarely have time to think strategically and be proactive because we are in such a reactive mode.<\/p>\n<p>But Covey\u2019s story illustrates the importance of taking a break and sharpening our saw so that we can be more effective and efficient with our time.<\/p>\n<p>When\u2019s the last time you sharpened your saw?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it about time to do it again?<\/p>\n<p>The excellent news is that there is an opportunity to do so on the horizon!\u00a0 Join me and others at the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual Leadership Colloquium@UMW on Thursday, November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>! \u00a0It\u2019s a fun day to network with other professional women, but also learn how to be more productive at work.\u00a0 Check out the agenda and register at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw\">https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/lcpw<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll see you there as my saw needs to be sharpened too!<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Richardson<br \/>\nDean<br \/>\nUMW College of Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Steven Covey stories from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People deals with sharpening your saw.\u00a0 As the story goes, a man is in the woods cutting down a tree.\u00a0 A person hiking through the woods asks him what he\u2019s doing.\u00a0 \u201cSawing down the tree,\u201d is the exasperated response.\u00a0 So the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"sidebar-content","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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