What Losing 20 Pounds Taught Me About Project Management
Bruce is the founder of ProjectManagementHacks.com, a resource for growing IT project managers.
Real-life project management has some common themes with running projects in organizations. My story is inspired by Paul Baumgartner’s article about drawing lessons from the world of swimming: Talent Pool: 6 PM Lessons From a Swimming Official.
While we all have different work situations, many of us struggle with physical fitness and diet habits. Fitness and physical health goals share common ground with project management. In both cases, you desire to create a new result that requires ideas, work and contributions beyond the ordinary.
To put my situation in context, some background is helpful. My diet wasn't the best during the first two years of the pandemic. As a result, I put on some weight—about 10 pounds. Even before that, I was heavier than I wanted to be. I took some comfort in that research shows that many others faced a similar situation.
According to a survey of nearly 10,000 Canadians, 74% reported that the pandemic impacted their eating habits, namely greater consumption of “unhealthy” food. Nearly 25% of Canadians reported greater alcohol consumption, and physical activity levels have generally declined: “42.3% of Canadians reported unintentional weight gain over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 39% reporting a weight gain of at least 11 pounds.”
While the external environment certainly made life …
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