I'm doing 29 things
Week 1 (Aug 30 – Sep 5)
- schedule my next two one-to-ones (L, I)
- find some time to talk to Don (and Angela?)
- confirm the Jesse quotes
- print out the material for the iMacs
- write two Apples
Saafir at Work (Artist, Educator, Mac Enthusiast)'s Life List
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1. DO GOOD WORK: Use my best talents to serve the world through my profession. Perform work of the highest ethical and technical caliber
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2. come up with a strengths-based plan for work
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3. familiarize myself with all of the hardware products that Apple Retail offers: learn the features, price, and benefits of each
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4. start a bibliography on teaching, design, art, and computers
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5. learn how computers work
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6. learn the major consumer apps sold at the Apple store
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7. use my 1 to 1 membership each week for a month
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8. write my Fine Line story and e-mail it to everyone I know
1 person -
9. format my .mac homepage
1 person -
10. make a list of Wikipedia articles and work my way through them
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11. learn photoshop
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12. Do a 1-to-1 on iWeb
1 person -
13. buy a bitchin' MacBook Pro (4 gigs of RAM, 2.6GHz processor): load it up with Adobe CS3, Aperture, and Logic
1 person -
14. buy the Marcus Buckingham "Trombone Player Wanted" short film series
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15. figure out how to measure my own performance
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16. take Conner to lunch
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17. start an "ideas" blog
1 person -
18. work up a killer set of workshops
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19. write a schedule for the next two weeks. Make sure to add time for thinking, learning, and reading
1 person -
20. create a learning plan for the next six months
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21. do the "Go, Put Your Strengths to Work" program
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22. figure out a way to share ideas and skills WITHIN the staff (i.e. Skill Swaps, or staff workshops)
1 person -
23. become the learning cheerleader for the store
1 person -
24. investigate Apple's subsidy of education: use it.
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25. memorize the thirty-four themes from Gallup's StrengthFinder assesment
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26. read a book on Mac OS X Leopard
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27. build a stunning website
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28. memorize the twelve questions from "First, Break All the Rules"
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29. sit in on the iPhoto workshop
1 person
Recent entries
Door
- Greet every man, woman, and child with a smile
- Set up ten to fifteen personal shopping appointments a day
Bartender
- Leave no customer waiting for more than five minutes
- Make sure everyone is checked in and comfortable
Lead Concierge
- Learn enough about all the concierges to put them in the best positions for their temperament
- Put an Apple a day on the wall; catch someone doing something right every day
- Do I know what is expected of me at work?
- Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right?
- At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?
- In the past seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work?
- Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about me as a person?
- Does someone at work encourage my development?
