I recently worked with a team of talented, motivated and busy managers who, as part of their team meetings took a ‘temperature check’ asking each member to rate how they felt, out of 5 at the moment.
Retreat!
It struck me again this week the double meaning of the word retreat, and perhaps it is not contrasting meanings. To retreat would be to go back, reverse, return. It also refers to an escape, a time away from everyday hustle and bustle to reflect and review.
Just How Good Can Things Be?
My coach, Drew Rozell, challenged me again this week on my expectations and the limits I, often unconsciously, set.
The nature of the results we cause and attract are in extremely close correlation to our expectations. We don’t realise the power we have to change the scale or extent of what we get to enjoy.
Have You Got It? Urgentia – Addiction to Urgent
The Urgent vs Important matrix is a trusty and well-used maxim of almost every time-management lesson or programme. I’m sure you know it and can recite the points it seeks to make. It is simply obvious, isn’t it?
Simplify Your Overwhelm
Most of the people I coach, me included, at some time experience overwhelm. Do you?
The Rest of Your Life
When I say ‘the rest of your life’, I could mean however many years you have left. Or, I could be referring to the most relaxing few hours of peace and tranquillity, the perfect temperature, surroundings, and nourishment possible. Whichever you thought when you read the title probably describes your current state of mind.
Re-setting Your Wake-Up Default Mode
Much has been written about the number of thoughts we have every day (something in the order of 60 thousand) and that most of them are the same as the previous day. What I take from this stat is that our change plans and personal evolution tends to happen slowly, certainly more slowly than is possible.
Pause Newsletter Bonus – 4. Every moment has become a blackberry moment
Technology has leapt forward in recent years, enabling almost constant connection and updates with what’s going on. When you are in overwhelm, overload and over committed, the technology seems to take over and your time is now longer your own.
Pause Newsletter Extras – 1. Clutter
In the Newsletter “Pause” I referred to a list of 12 indicators that if they are happening to you, then it’s time to press your Pause Button. This is the first bonus thinking behind no1. Clutter has increased in and around your work place
Pause – Only You Can Press That Button
Last week I described ‘Celeritas’, using the burst of speed to charge through a build-up of decisions and tasks. To prove we live in ambiguous times and that my job is to bring balance to situations, this week it is the opposite…Pause.
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