Are you cultivating an environment of intense focus? There are many enemies to this kind of focus today. Beyond the usual suspects of technological distractions and ever-shortening attention spans is a silent killer: too many goals. Manifold goal setting has become a panacea for a lack of clarity and purpose. The more goals you have the more productive you can be, right? Wrong. The scourge of hyper goal setting is related to the curse of busyness in that they’re two highly desirable yet completely useless states of modern living. If you find yourself answering, “I’m busy” every time someone asks how you’re doing, you know this well. Modern life asks us to wear busyness like a badge of honor. Yet, the busier we become, the less we’re actually creating. Tim Kreider, writing in the New York Times, says, It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.” What do we need to face in the absence of busyness? The imperative to create, innovate, or transform. Busyness as usual is far less frightening. #QuietPowerStrategy (excerpt)
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:43:53 +0000
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