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I’ll be honest, I think sometimes I don’t think I do it enough but I find it a bit annoying when others around me do not often stop to think about things before taking action. I’m talking about situations where people will leave bottles with the tops open on the table while working and moving around their laptops on the same table (yes it’s happened to me and yes I spilled a lot of water accidentally because I just did not stop to think). Or situations where rather than preventing something disastrous happening by spending a few minutes (say grounding yourself before doing electrical work or wearing gloves while hammering or drilling nails even though you may be working with Ikea furniture), you decide to go ahead, think that you will ‘be careful’ and that nothing will happen (which you will most likely be right 95% of the time).
So to help you and help myself consider when it is good to just pause and reflect, I wanted to share the situations where I have done so and why.
Before sending out an important e-mail
I’ve sent out e-mails with wrong participants. Typos in the very first word of the e-mail. Wrong conference call numbers. These could all have been prevented by taking a few minutes before sending to read over the e-mail, and then carefully consider what is inside and how it may be…
