TL;DR: While you're celebrating freedom today, your calendar is enslaved to bullshit meetings that accomplish nothing except making people feel important. Time to declare independence from meeting theater, eliminate productivity killers, and reclaim your time for actual work.
You spend more time talking about work than doing work. You attend "alignment sessions" where nobody gets aligned, "brainstorming meetings" where the best ideas get murdered by committee, and "status updates" where everyone reports on work that could have been summarized in a single Slack message.
Your calendar isn't a productivity tool. It's a hostage situation where your time gets ransomed by people who mistake being busy for being effective.
Time to declare independence from meeting tyranny and reclaim your right to actually get shit done.
Part 3: The Meeting Audit Framework
Ready to Declare Meeting Independence?
Stop letting your calendar hold your productivity hostage.
I've created a Meeting Liberation Toolkit to help you:
Meeting audit checklist with value/decision/time tests
Templates for declining meetings professionally
Asynchronous communication alternatives to common meetings
Focus time protection strategies
Team meeting standards framework
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