# Overcoming Barriers ### 💡Summary: Find out how to overcome barriers to open working: * Time - use timers and build on pre-existing work * Confidence - practice, and ask a colleague to read over your work * Where to share your work - the [Open Working and Re-Use Medium Publication](https://medium.com/open-working-reuse) ### ⏰Time Although open working will help you to save time later on, many find it difficult to get started. Here are some tips for writing speedy weeknotes: * Use a timer. Here are our workshop slides with timers attached! 🔗[ Google slides with timers](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kRTx_3_Fl7t6n3W4F8gbAPLE6q5pFgx0q8oS3cxub5c/edit#slide=id.p) * Share something that you already have! That could be summarising a report that you've done already, or writing up the process of how you did something. > "You only need to dedicate 30 minutes per week" > > -Catalyst Re-use Circle ### 🌟Confidence Sharing your work can be intimidating - but it doesn't have to be! * Start small - challenge yourself to write 100-200 words * Ask a colleague to read over your work * Have faith that your writing will be useful to someone else! What might seem boring to you could help someone else solve a problem they've been working on for months. * **Practice, practice, practice!** ### **🌍 Where to share** So, you've written your weeknote - now what? There might be a few places where it would be appropriate to share your work. Here are some ideas of where you could share it: * Publish to our Open Working and Re-Use Medium to reach others in the sector who have taken part in the Open Working Programme. 🔗[Visit the Open Working and Re-Use Medium Publication](https://medium.com/open-working-reuse) * Share on your own Medium account. * Share on your organisation's blog.

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Adapted from Christine Cawthorne's "Ways to Make Working in the Open Really, Really Easy" 📖 [Read the full blog post](https://medium.com/wethecatalysts/ways-to-make-working-in-the-open-really-really-easy-f3b753a6df1a) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wearecast.gitbook.io/open-working-toolkit/doing-open-working/overcoming-barriers.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.