Incredibly organized? Operationally efficient? Or maybe just lazy!

For some time I’ve been thinking about a constant question I get: how do you find time to do all you do? Work as a leader and exec in biopharma, family with two amazing young daughters, executive MBA at MIT, podcast host, some other entrepreneurship ventures, training, friends… and constantly, I have the voice of my mother telling me when I was younger (and she reminded me during my current holiday break :):)) “come on, speed it up, stop wasting your time!”

Let me share something I never shared before, I really think she's right, I’m lazy!?

As weird as it can sound, I get things done because I love getting to a point where I can do nothing. This shapes my organizational and operational efficiency. Combined with my constant search for excellence, it always helped me get things done pretty good and the fastest route possible. When I was in high school and med school, I always woke up at 4 or 5 am to get my studies done as soon as I could so I can enjoy my afternoons free. And I kept this ever since, but instead of afternoons, it is now more evenings or few hours I intentionally take with my family and/or for myself. Those moments of doing "nothing" are precious! These are the times where my neurons interconnect and talk to one another unconditionally I feel. This is when I get most creative!?

I finally managed to get things straight on this topic while talking to an MIT professor last week. I get things done, on many fronts and in parallel, because I’m operationally efficient, which in my mom’s words and in my mind equals being lazy.

No more fear of someday someone discovering it (yes that went along with my impostor syndrome). In fact, I will be looking from now on for leaders who spread love in their organizations and are lazy enough to get things done beautifully and efficiently.