Here’s a sweet gem from a fellow mobile worker (I hadn’t seem him there before) at the cafe today. He saw me brainstorming with pen and large piece of paper and he said:

“I did that recently for a project. I had all this info about it in my head. I was working with a coach and he suggested I write it all down on a big piece of paper. So I took this 4ft piece of freezer paper (is this like butcher paper??) and got everything out of my head. I slept so well that night!! I’d been having trouble sleeping because I was thinking about all this and that night I slept great!

“Then my coach told me to highlight with yellow all the things that needed to be done that I really loved to do–the stuff I really dig doing. Then I highlighted the rest of the things that needed to get done with blue that I didn’t care for as much. My coach told me to sub-contract out all the blue.

“I’ve been doing that and this project is just sailing along like you wouldn’t believe…”

That conversation made for quite the rockin’ coffee break! Thanks, mystery man at the cafe today!