A big part of what we teach in our Balance and Productivity training is around learning the craft of distraction management.
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Our surroundings can pull us toward our intentions or away from them. If your physical desk and/or computer desktop are unregulated messes, you are most likely losing time and energy to your environment.
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In one of my binge sessions with Dr. Joe Dispenza, he said that we humans are really good at spending "now" picking "yesterday" up and plopping it down onto "tomorrow."
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For the majority of people, for every app that they add to their phone, each of those apps is probably dinging at them at some point during the day. Because apps want to ding at us as a default. They want to produce a siren song that we can’t resist to get us onto their platform to either buy what they have to sell or gain our attention for advertisers that have something to sell.
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Leading with love and intense curiosity in all of life is where joy and results are found. ALL of life - yep, work too. But here’s the thing, you can’t do that at high speed and with too many "things" going on. It’s a one-at-a-time approach. The choice is yours. Choose LESS but BETTER.
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This week marks the one year anniversary of the Focus to Evolve blog. This blog has been a labor of love for us and a fun creative outlet. Thank you to anyone who has read an entry or two; reshared, liked, or commented on a post; or inspired us with ideas.
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I'm often asked in our productivity trainings, if I'm only allowed one tip to dramatically boost productivity, what would it be? I would have to go with "Engineer your life and environments (physical and mental) to enable deeper sleep."
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Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through your phone? Do you lose time without realizing what happened? I’ve certainly fallen victim to this more than I care to admit in my life. Thankfully, I found this solution that has given me back hours of my day, and it’s very simple!
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Have you ever walked through a park or college campus and noticed the paths of dirt through the grass that aren’t paved? These unpaved paths are sometimes called desire paths. They’re the worn spots that people regularly take because they’re the easiest way for them to travel. Landscapers sometimes wait for these paths to be formed organically by people’s movements before placing pavement since it represents how people actually want to move around the space. I leverage this concept of the well-worn, easiest paths in my life and time management techniques as well.
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This morning, I journaled about how at the exact time of waking, I've been feeling a kind of anxiety. This feeling has been lightly creeping up more and more as I age. After a deep dive into a silent self-inquiry as to why this may be happening, something that felt quite true revealed itself.
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The power of the words I use and the way they shape my perception of the world around me is profound.
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When making a decision about who to spend time with and learn from (whether it be a new friendship, a new significant other, a new client, coworker, coach, or mentor), I find that checking in on this one variable helps me to understand a lot about them quickly.
How hearty is their laugh?
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We all know there are 24 hours in a day. If I sleep 8 hours and work 8-10 hours, I am left with 6-8 hours a day when I’m awake and get to decide how to fill that time. If I’m not mindful, there are instances when I find myself defaulting into leisure activities rather than actively deciding though.
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Freedom is a new compensation mechanism. Many companies are in this strange transition from "grit and grind earns money and status" to "do great work on time and in full then take the rest of the day to recover."
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In my own life, I understand that one of my most precious and finite resources is time. One of my daily habits is to pay special attention to things that bring me joy. And throughout each day, I try to stack those joys in order to maximize the yield on my time.
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Say "no" more. What an easy thing to say. But what a difficult thing to do in our minute by minute experience of a day.
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One of my secret weapons in establishing myself as a valued colleague in organizations is to never view tasks as out of my court. Unless someone is asking me for a favor, I continue to see tasks as mine even if I’m waiting on something from someone else.
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I've heard it said that in this modern world of so much comfort, so many options and unimaginable exposure to distraction, that hurried and busy has become the new stupid.
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One of my favorite authors and podcasters, Greg McKeown, talks about how he visualizes the way people budget their time and energy. He sees the areas that we budget time and energy to as concentric circles. In the middle, the bullseye circle is self. The next ring around the bullseye is important relationships: family and close friends. The outermost ring is other. Greg observes that many people, when budgeting their time and energy, start from the outside of the concentric circles and move in. But what if we reverse the direction and start at the inside and move our way out?
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Here at Focus to Evolve, we consider the act of saying no as one of the four primary meta-skills that are required for that doubling-of-meaningful-output-in-the-same-number-of-hours-worked benefit. We call it a meta-skill, because there is no area of your life that won't improve (dramatically) when you begin to get good at saying no to the things that simply should not be on your plate.
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