Managing your time and your focus are the keys to unlocking your success in 2023
Alice Boyes, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist turned writer and author of The Healthy Mind Toolkit and The Anxiety Toolkit writes:
It is natural to want to get deadline-driven tasks squared away and off your mental to-do list. A paradox many people face is that our most meaningful tasks are less likely to have deadlines than tasks that are relatively unimportant. Your important priorities might relate to:
enacting your values (for example, volunteering or spending more time with your children)
achieving public recognition (getting invited to sit on industry panels or writing a book)
improving vital skills (upping your knowledge of statistics or learning a new language)
averting disasters (scheduling an annual checkup at the doctor or creating a crisis management protocol for your business)
If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter.
Her article in Harvard Business Review is a quick read: How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent
For more on managing your day, I strongly encourage you to learn about proactivity and creating Million Dollar days with my short article Deliberate Morning Program (My book and my blog). You can also view my short lectures on how to create time on Youtube.
If you have reached a senior level in your company, you might be interested in our leadership program XCELERATOR.
Developing your mindset is also a crucial part of being intentional and not procrastinating.
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