You know in coaching we talk a lot about focus and how it is key to making things happen, succeeding and even improving our communication. I don' think we talk enough about how focus also helps us to be happier....I find it hard to really enjoy things when I am spread out over 5 different things happening at the same time, not being able to have anything of depth. It is not that we don't need to multi-task but that multi-tasking should not be what is happening in our "off time"- that needs another dimension, one of focusing on depth...and I think that is rapidly disappearing in our younger generation- what do you think Here is a great article below.
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Are We Losing Our Focus?
--by Jill Suttie, syndicated from Greater Good, Dec 20, 2013
In a new book, Daniel Goleman argues that focus leads to greater happiness, better relationships, and increased productivity.
Daniel Goleman, renowned author and psychologist, writes that the ability to focus on one task to the exclusion of others is a lost art for many. Yet the skill of focus is connected to greater happiness, better relationships, and increased productivity. He writes that balancing inner, other, and out...
http://www.dailygood.org/story/605/are-we-losing-our-focus-jill-suttie/
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Keeping End-of-year Hysteria in Check
A
recent post on the Harvard Business Review blog talked about how to ask
for direction from managers and others in dealing with work overload
(see below). This reminded me of a kind of hysteria I sense in so many
managers about "year end", seeing how so many are all postponing
meetings, commitments, social gatherings and what not. It is as if the
"year end" is "life's end", a sense of hysteria totally blown out of
proportion. Of course it all comes from above, the manager on top and
the one on top of him/her. And we all know that is comes from the fear
of not succeeding, not meeting the numbers and so on.
With
all due respect to those many people who need deadlines and guns at
their heads to get things done, I think there is too much respect given
here…we need to remember that important things are achieved by building
structures, systems, relationships and discipline over time- let's keep
this impulsive hysteria in check so that we don't find ourselves letting
it lead us, rather than us lead it…
Rome
was not built in a day and neither was the company you work for. Beware
that end of the year hysteria may be getting the better of you and
causing others to lose confidence in you as a person in a relationship.
That, to my eyes, is much more important.
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(Harvard Business Review blog)
December 12, 2013
Ask for Direction with Work Overload
Adapted from “Stop Work Overload By Setting These Boundaries” by Elizabeth Grace Saunders.
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