Six Meetings Before Lunch!

I was going to start this blog with a list of all the meetings I had this week but as I reviewed my trusty outlook calendar it became apparent that if you looked at my actual schedule you’d think I was crazy. – So I elected to show you just one half day to give a quick peek into one of my mornings.  It  started off with an 8:05 meeting with my staff in ATF we have affectionately dubbed “The Morning Huddle” (meeting 1). Next was a meeting with our Partner & Sponsorship Manager to review his progress against his upcoming deadlines and goals (meeting 2). Then a brief meeting with the ATF Booking Manager to discuss our contract addendums for 2 venues we need to contract for this week (meeting 3).  I then met with my Operations Director who serves as my ‘right hand’ in managing much of the day to day operational projects within ATF we needed to make some additional adjustments to the FY 10 Budget in time for me to deliver it to the CFO. (meeting 4).  – Meeting 4 ran a bit overtime, so I asked my assistant to let our Creative Team Director & the Director of Film & Television know I was going to be a few minutes late… I rush back to my office where I meet with our Creative Team to review the Drama and Message Support for this coming ATF tour and how we are going to practically execute it all well and within budget (meeting 5) I then take a conference call from our Event Director to discuss some key production elements, gear rental, pre-production and venue prep for next year (meeting 6)

And this was just looking at meetings that were ‘scheduled’ – in there I had an impromptu meeting with our VIP Booking manager to validate our status on band & speaker bookings that must be at 100% in the next few days!….   pheww!    Of course, I’ve blown right by lunch time and I still have a massive amount of projects that must be tackled before I can even think about calling it a day.

I don’t want you to say “poor Kemtal” remember I signed up for this.  This is just not work, it’s a calling.  I’ve always enjoyed work and I do now.  In my career in the retail industry before coming to Teen Mania it was hard to distinguish between work and play. BUT, There are times that I need to replenish, we all do.  Even us that love working hard need to sometimes call a time out and allow our batteries to recharge.

Know your signs, if you are getting short tempered, snappy, curt with those around you it’s a good sign that you’ve allowed your batteries (spiritual & physical) to run down and you better take some time to realign, refresh and renew.

It’s a holiday this weekend… I admit it, I worked today… I  thought I  “needed” to but at around 4ish I realized that instead of being helpful hubby or playful papa I was huffing around the house back and forth from my laptop staring at spreadsheets.  I sent my last email and have turned off the blackberry.  – The work will be there Monday.  My most important ministry… to my family, and myself will be my focus.

I’d challenge you… know your signs and take sometime this long weekend to relax, refresh and renew. It will be worth every second, and you’ll be more productive when you get back to work again!

- Kemtal

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