{"id":69,"date":"2017-09-20T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:58:56","slug":"you-cant-fill-up-a-bottle-of-water-if-the-cap-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/you-cant-fill-up-a-bottle-of-water-if-the-cap-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t fill up a bottle of water if the cap is on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rsz_1pexels-photo-113734-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rsz_1pexels-photo-113734-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rsz_1pexels-photo-113734-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rsz_1pexels-photo-113734-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rsz_1pexels-photo-113734-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timesheet.dovico.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rsz_1pexels-photo-113734.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My three promises to you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I promise that I will keep listening to what our clients and prospective\u00a0clients are saying about our culture and our products.\u00a0I once heard a great quote: &#8220;You<em> can\u2019t fill up a bottle of water if the cap is on<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I promise that I\u00a0will make every effort to help our clients get back to work and find new ways of making our products easier and more fun to use so that they don\u2019t waste time tracking time.<\/li>\n<li>I promise that I\u00a0will always be conscious of ways to build a product that will help\u00a0<em>make your time more meaningful<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With this last promise,\u00a0I\u2019m reminded of something that just happened to me recently that I would like to share with you. As it sometimes happens, and because I can be a little headstrong with my opinions, a colleague and I got into a rather &#8220;colorful&#8221; discussion. \u00a0As I was walking back to my office after the meeting, I planned to write a serious email to drive home my point of view. \u00a0But just then, a thought hit me! Instead of taking an hour to write an emotional email and waste a lot of energy and time out of my colleague&#8217;s day, perhaps I should\u00a0go to my timesheet and describe the \u2018Value\u2019 of this task before I start. This made a lot more sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>So how could I give my time more meaning and more value?<\/p>\n<p>After trying to describe the value of the email, I quickly\u00a0understood that writing that\u00a0email would provide no value to me, my colleague or Dovico. So I paused, re-focused, and wrote a \u2018Give Time Meaning\u2019 topic in a Seth Godin Marketing Seminar that I&#8217;m taking online (our wonderful CEO and culture coach, Yves\u00a0recommended I\u00a0take this seminar. \u00a0Yves also\u00a0is setting the tone for this new way of thinking within our company). Well\u2026 as it turns out, I received so much positive energy from all the wonderful comments on that topic that it completely changed my day and my week! It provided me with so much energy that I was able to share it with my colleagues, my children, and my friends!<\/p>\n<p>To me, that&#8217;s the meaning of &#8216;giving time meaning&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Diane Doucet, <\/i><br \/>\n<i>#TimeCoach <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dovico.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Dovico<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My three promises to you&#8230;. 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