I was in Branson this weekend – I didn’t realize it was the 3rd largest attraction in terms of visitor numbers in the US. Maybe not in the middle of February but nevertheless……
I was thinking that we are in a”microwave” climate. Further to my post last week there are so many things to do and it seems as though there is never enough time to do them all. So we tend to want things to happen quickly: miracle diets promising rapid weight loss, latest get rich quick schemes and so on.
I have also seen this used as an excuse to basically consider work-life balance to be unattainable. I hear it a lot: “Oh, balance would be nice but in today’s high pressure world it can never be achieved so I may as well resign myself to this – it is what it is” and variations on that theme. Well there is a lot of stuff about personal belief in there but I won’t go into that now!
Firstly I think we all fall victim to this type of thinking. In response we chase the bright shiny things and then move on quickly to the next one. It seems as though there is never enough time in the day.
However it may help to think about what is truly important to you in your life. If you came up with a word like “family” think more specifically it is about family that means the most to you. Then think about one area you would like to improve IF YOU HAD TIME. Think about this assuming you did have time. What is the one thing you could do now……
How much time would that really take on a daily/weekly basis? Remember this is what is most important to you! What will you give up to achieve this? Hint: It may be TV.
When will you start to do this?
February 20, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Jerry,
Thanks for the good post…again! I will give an example of this from the work side. Yesterday I found out that I didn’t win a bid on a very large project. I have recently changed the specific focus of my business, and this huge project would have been part of the OLD focus. I am SO lucky that I didn’t get the job! I love the new focus, but the prospect of a really large job that would have dominated my time was too much to turn away from. BUT, it would have taken me away from my NEW focus. I feel lucky that it didn’t work out…and today I am more focused on the NEW focus of my business. Please…no more BST’s!