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[Myra Krallman]

The Allisons switch to encouraging children to collect coins. The first year, trick-or-treaters sent $17 to UNICEF to provide powdered milk to children around the world. The original Kids Helping Kids campaign is officially born!

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Kaye promotes the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign by flying his own plane on whirlwind tours across North America to enlist children as volunteers. He touches down in 65 US and Canadian cities in five days, putting him in the Guinness Book of Records as the "World's Fastest-Flying Entertainer."

In short, I do whatever I can to put urgency in perspective and leave value out of the picture (for now). It's a bit of a mind game because humans are not very good at these two things. A team will say something is urgent even when working on it for quarters or years (or the company has delayed prioritizing it for years). Contrast this with an outage or an existential crisis in the business. It wasn't that urgent.

This is where things get interesting. The only move they have at their disposal is the VERTICAL movement. They can't shift urgency. To help a team, I label the Y axis with something like Game Change, Optimizer, and Tweak.

I turn whatever they have into a 9-box and divide each cell into three columns: 1-3mo, 1-3q, and 1-3y. Then, I instruct the team to place the initiatives in one of the three columns FOR THE CURRENT CELL. No moving around to different cells. It looks a bit like this:

So what happened behind the scenes? In the first two exercises, we discovered the opportunity cost (or cost of delay) of the opportunity. The urgency and value decoupling is a mind game, but it works. In the final step, we layered in duration to arrive at a weight cost of delay (CoD/duration), which is a useful tool for sequencing.

Here is a fun prioritization exercise. Some have described it as a Jedi mind trick. It is very simple but it plays with people\u2019s head in a good way. It draws heavily from Joshua Arnold's work on cost of delay, particularly this article on qualitative cost of delay. I\u2019m basically describing a fun workshop hack around Josh\u2019s work.

First, I ask the team to organize their initiatives based purely on urgency\u2014one axis, not two. I describe the many scenarios where urgent things aren't necessarily valuable, and valuable things aren't necessarily urgent. I stress that questions of urgency\u2014when to enter a market, when to care about competitors, near-term risk vs. long-term risk\u2014are inherently strategic.

Building on tactics from the urgency exercise, we stress that all things can't be equally valuable(but that doesn't make them not worth doing. I also make a huge effort to leave duration out of the question\u2014more on that later. A \\\"small win\\\" isn't very valuable, but it could be worth doing.

The trick to using velcro is using THIS Industrial Strength Velcro comes in a tape you can cut to any length. If you attach it to the inside it could still fall out, so re-inforce with hot glue (Image below). I have attached to the side of the sconce and it stayed in.

A reader, Susan shared what her husband figured out to use to attach their magic light to their sconce! He used THIS adaptor that cost 47 cents! And attached it to the magic light with crazy glue. Very smart!

I recently shared THIS Ikea Hack with a Magic Light Trick above it! I used THIS Sconce that was under $50 but I did have to spray paint with my favorite gold spray paint. If you are against spray painting a new sconce you could do THIS sconce that looks almost identical!

We also used THIS wall sconce find a similar less-expensive one HERE and wired it to the inside. For a wall lamp like this that is covered you will just use the remote to turn it on. Make sure to use THESE for the magic-light warm glow!

Love your home and all of your posts! The only reason I frequent my Instagram, is for my daily dose of Nesting with Grace!!! Question, do you think magic light trick would work for pendants over an island???
Thanks again for your inspiration!

Just in time for the March Slice of Life Story Challenge, and also at that time of year when your students (if they are old enough to type) might be ready for a boost to increase engagement, stamina, and volume, the internet has proved itself useful and has given us the Comic Sans trick.

This article, titled Get Over Yourself and Start Writing in Comic Sans explains some of the reasoning behind why this trick works, and so does this one, titled The Font You Hate Might Actually Save You.

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