There are some days that you just don't 'feel like it'; those days where you turn up to work, find yourself pottering around, doing unproductive stuff, and then you go home feeling guilty for spending most of your ‘work day’ reorganising your emails and tidying your desk.
It’s highly likely that you had plenty to do on those days, but because your energy was low, your unproductive actions only added stress for what you didn’t achieve. So, what do you do about it? There are very few safe harbours in the world these days and for the isolated CEO or Exec carrying all the pressure, providing them with one will make a significant difference to their performance and longevity, and through them, the organisation.
It doesn't matter how smart, insightful or even self-aware you are, getting a quality, external perspective helps. Someone to help sort the important from the urgent, who doesn’t have a vested interest in anything other than your success. Even the best of the best (i.e. Branson, Gates) rely on others who complement their skills, who offer honesty where others wouldn’t (for fear of impacting their own position), and who offer a sounding board that safely challenges thinking and comfort zones. Key Points:
I just received my postal vote survey in the mail this morning and have already ticked ‘Yes’ and sent it back. Simple, not divisive or hurtful or hateful. An easy question with, for me at least, and easy answer.
On this blog I very rarely engage in political or social topics, but this one is both timely and important enough for me to risk polarising my readers. Below represents a simple summary of my response to the aspects of the debate that I have read or heard people express. For those who are unsure about which way to vote, I hope this helps. There are whole industries dedicated to helping people change habits:
There are hectares of books written about human psychology, changing behaviour, habit change. Yet people are still overweight; un-fit and struggling with how to effectively change their un-wanted habits People say success is just a matter of choice. The common law of attraction type paradigm is that you can choose to be happy; choose to be successful at your job, choose to be better at delegation, making decisions or planning.
That you can simply choose to get fit, stop smoking or procrastinate less and bingo it happens When saying this they are failing to understand how human behaviour arises. How to achieve the things we want to become means that we change how we act and behave now. And that 95% or more of human behaviour is automatic unconscious and habit based. Our mood or state of mind has a serious effect on not only how we interpret a scene, but also what elements of that scene we actually pay attention to and 'notice' in the first place. (There are piles of empirical evidence for this in the annals of psych research.)
It is also clear that the effect is to re-enforce and justify the mood we are currently experiencing. It's like our mind is looking to match the feeling we have with events in the world. In essence, finding proof that our mood is justified. |
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