The 37 Part Solution

Yo yo!

Welcome back to 5 Minute Masterclass, the weekly refresh for awesome humans on the clock.

Don’t know about you, but for me it has been a WEEK – culminating in my lovely daughter Coco turning 10 yesterday!!! All the feels, all the feels. Hope you’ve had a ripper!

Today’s 5MM is all about discovering a sense of fun while getting sh*t done (poet and I know it!)

Short on time? Skip the warmup, and jump straight to the question at the end.

The Warmup

Based on a true text conversation. The profession has been changed to protect the identity of the grumpy wrong-side-of-the-bedder.

Ugh, it’s only 11.18am, and the day feels f**ked.

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I can’t make anything jive 😔

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What would doing the opposite of the last 2 hours and 18 minutes look like?

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Going back to bed

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Haha. Shoosh.

Why don’t you do something work related that’s fun?

Get the passion pumping

Plan some fun social content showing off that new program

Brainstorm a newsletter speaking directly to your peeps about youth unemployment and how to overcome it

Cold email some prospective philanthropic funders a fun peppy email

Even…

Do a handstand

Or a cartwheel

(If you can)

Maybe some burpees

(But don’t spew in the office)

Lock yourself in the bathroom, listen to Charli XCX in your headphones and have a little boogie

Smash out that report you keep putting off (you know the one) cos then its done

Drop a freestyle rap battle on your outreach guy and get the young people to vote on who wins

(I can ghost write the raps for you)

Travel from your office to the kitchen by forward roll

(Then pretend you didn’t do anything weird)

Write some more prospecting emails

Come up with a fun fundraising event

Do some finance work

(Nah, don’t do that)

Juggle 4 oranges

Juggle 3 oranges

Throw 3 bruised and warped oranges in the bin cos it turns out juggling is hard af

Write another prospecting email

Eat something that tastes like shit then eat something delicious so it tastes even better by comparison

Do a case session with a young person to show off to your team how awesome you are at it

Laugh heaps for no good reason

(Which is the best reason)

Find a kind, true and lovely thing to say to every one of your staff members

(But spread it out – if you doit at the same time they’ll think you popped MDMA while dancing in the toilet)

Actually finish that damn reportI know you’re avoiding (see point 14)! Do it!

Then do one more small thing that’s productive.

Now it’s at least 6pm.

Go home.

Or out.

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Ok.

The 5 Minute Masterclass

If you're new, here's the drill – this is your 5 Minute Masterclass in YOU.

Seta timer on your phone or computer. This week, you have EXACTLY 5 minutes to answer one question. 

Smash it out, hit send, then have a marvellous weekend. I'll write back to you in the next few days 😊

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Question: What can you do to be more productive - and inject a sense of fun and fulfilment -in the week to come? 

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Have an awesome weekend!

Nick

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