Coaching practices for Seneca on Time with My Team

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  • I come away from most of what I scroll through and most of the people I’m around feeling smaller and more agitated, and I can tell it’s quietly dragging my whole standard down
  • I keep telling myself I’ll really start living once things settle down
  • The long-term work my team needs
  • It’s the blows I never see coming that flatten me
  • Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard

Practices that may help

  1. Seneca on Time, Made Practical
    Seneca’s argument in On the Shortness of Life is that life isn’t short — we waste most of it, treating our money as precious and our time as free. His practices treat time as the one true, non-renewable wealth: audit where it goes, review each day at night, rehearse adversity in advance, and stop postponing living. The strongest support is the overlap with studied habits like self-monitoring and reflective review.
  2. Choose whose mind you spend time in
    Spend time with the best minds — living or dead — and guard against the rest pulling you down.
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  3. Stop postponing your life
    The greatest waste of life is putting it off — “the whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  4. Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
    Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
    The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
  5. Rehearse adversity before it comes
    “The unexpected blows of fortune land hardest” — so meet them in advance, in your mind.
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  6. Align around collective results, not individual status
    Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
  7. Review the day each night
    Before sleep, put the day on trial: what did I do well, what badly, what will I do differently?
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  8. Treat time as your only real wealth
    Guard your hours the way you guard your money — most people do the opposite.
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  9. Reclaim the present from past and future
    The busy lose the present to regret and dread; only the present is actually yours.
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  10. Practice foresight and stewardship
    Hold the team’s resources and future in trust — decide for the long game, not just this quarter.
    Servant Leadership, Made Practical

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