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- Karl

I love American Idol, but its commercial breaks are longer than the show itself. If you add the previews (which duplicate most of the content,) there’s time to accomplish quite a bit between segments.

How do you use all that time?!

Here’s my list of 10 tasks you can complete during an American Idol commercial break:

1. Pay the bills.
2. Give the dog a bath.
3. Clean out the garage.
4. Make popcorn… for the neighborhood.
5. Repair a popped balloon.
6. Install software on Windows.
7. Navigate the menu of telephone prompts to get a live person at the phone company.
8. Replay Obama’s inaugural address.
9. Explain Twitter to your grandmother.
10. Delouse a screaming child.

Those commercials make up a good part of one’s evening. Why just sit there?

What else belongs on this list?

After the solution screws up the project, all those who initially endorsed it will say, “I wish I had voiced my reservations at the time.”

I found this unattributed quote on a calendar so old that the white paper is now brown and fragile. Still relevant, wouldn’t you say?!

Always making a case for lifelong learning.

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I always feel a day behind after a three-day weekend.

It’s Tuesday, and while I thoroughly enjoyed Monday with my family, part of me wants Monday back.

I can’t do Monday planning on Tuesday! I need to have a certain amount of momentum by now. And to top it all off, I lost my procrastination wiggle-room.

I’ll survive, of course. But for all the flexibility and willingness to adjust that I recommend for the poised leader, I’m feeling remarkably out of my routine today.

How do you get back into the groove after being away?