coordinating with others

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onto today’s topic: coordinating with others 😵‍💫 

coordinating with other people, especially when making plans, is a skilled art.

can’t say i’ve mastered it. if only we could all have the exact same schedules. alas. i’ve tried when2meet, sharing google calendars, laying out a few options, calendly …. everything. nothing has struck gold. 🥇 

i listed those options in order of what has worked the worst to the best, but that’s just for 1on1 calls. planning meetings or hangouts with more than 3 people is treacherous. what i’ve learned over the past few years has been to compromise and cater to others’ schedules as much as possible, but also be okay with the possibility that not everyone will make it. 🤷‍♀️ 

my approach tends to be naming one decisive place and time, and then tweaking from there if there’s a lot of scheduling conflict. the problem with listing a lot of options lies in the fact that people will choose timings based on convenience rather than necessity. that ends with very small windows of availability and greater inflexibility.

of course, there’s times where you want everyone to attend a birthday party or weekend brunch, but everyone has a lot going on and part of maturing is realizing that a 100% attendance rate is near impossible.

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