You're probably clear on the importance of focus, what I consider to be the flip side of distraction. A lot can be said about distractions and how to manage them, but a powerful mantra that really helps is embedded in the quotation below. That's one distraction you don't need.
How’s that strategy execution coming along? I ’ll bet things are starting to drag about now, aren’t they? The pandemic is winding down and summer’s just around the corner. Maybe you’re dialing it back a little, looking forward to some well-deserved vacation. You launched the year full of promise ……
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Most of the time when we sit down to work, maybe in our favorite chair, we have a stack of papers or files and a list of some kind.
We then proceed to “work” as we’ve always defined it … plow through the stack and “get ‘er done”.
This time, sit downt with blank sheet of paper, as I did again this morning. Nothing else.
Then, just sit back and noodle on the issues that are clogging your brain and keeping you up at night. … with NO preconceived notions about them. Remember, you paper is blank so far.
You’ll be amazed at how your mind starts to do it’s favorite thing … and the thing it does best … adding some intellectual firepower to solving problems.
Our brain is not really that good at filing, sorting, recording and remembering what we need at the precise moment we need it. (more…)
We’d like to think that its technology that has become our enemy and is the cause of the distractions and our struggles to get things done.
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Many years ago ... and after coaching senior leaders for many years before that ... it became clear ... crystal ... that the senior leaders I was coaching had never taken the time to develop a trusted productivity system to manage everything that had their attention across all phases of…
When I'm talking to leaders these day, I find an unusual level of inaction. Maybe immobility is a better word for it. Today, the pandemic officially begins Month #11, and has people frustrated, bored and uncertain of their future. The riots in the Capitol and the heightened level of political…