I know I give too many details when I talk. I assume the same is true when I write.

I am trying to get over it but it isn’t going to happen right away.

I first read about life hacking in Time Magazine. The goal makes sense to me: I like the idea, so I follow some of the blogs it mentions and after a some time, I settled on 43 Folders which directed me to Rands In Repose: Ninety Days in which Rands assigns some interesting tasks for the first ninety days of your new job, not because it is a new job, but because you are working with a new team.

We’re not all about to start a new job. However, by beginning new projects, most of us are working with a new team: customer, vendor, strategic business partner, members of another department or division. While your next project may take ninety days, the team isn’t going to have ninety days to assimilate, but by keeping the ideas Rands has outlined in mind: get to know whom you are working with, you are giving the entire team a leg up.

While you’re making the effort for the sake of the team and your project, get real and don’t try to fudge your way through any of this. To borrow a final piece of advice from Rands about this process, “the less you trust your instincts, the more you’ll learn.”