The joy of working with friends

I am very fortunate to have colleagues who are friends as well. It just feels that I am not working but more playing together.

Recently I began to be successful in implementing a time management system where I limit my focus time on 25 minutes. This helps me to focus and said to distractions such as thoughts, ideas, worries, concerns to wait by putting them into the to-do-list in my Evernote. When the time is up, I will then take a short break before continuing again.

The problem is that I cannot directly apply it to human. There can be people popping up and start talking. Well, at least with the system, I don’t initiate talking. But when they do, then I learn to be relax and enjoy the conversation which turns out both entertaining and fruitful.

Since I moved my past intern’s whiteboard to my desk, it becomes even easier as I can ask my friends to draw some concepts that I find them difficult to understand. So we can discuss a lot on my pod both on work and non-work related matters.

Also, I was expecting a very structured schedule. But it turns out to be more random, where unplanned discussion took place and ideas were generated.

Well, this may also because I am now very positive at the moment and there is no deadline coming to me. In other words, I start to managing my time well when the goals and tasks are defined by me - which is really God’s tremendous grace. At the same time, I need to remember that things are not always smooth. Just like another friend as well as mentor from my office messaged me the best motivational video which reminds us to take up our dream and expect things will not be easy.