Health & Fitness
Speed Wastes Time!
Local Business Coach/Consultant Pete Schroeder offers a counter-intuitive concept that's helpful in business and life - an invitation to shift your approach to your day. Question? "Ask the Coach."
"Speed Wastes Time!"
One of my favorite sayings, which I learned from John Milton, a wise, wise man. Consider how much we miss by doing things too fast. Or, how much we have to redo due to hasty errors. In business, especially around a lovely community like Fair Oaks, do we really need to hurry through our day? Have we over-planned our day? My thought is that distractions and other time-wasters are what cause us to hurry, or not get done what we say we want. I’ve heard many say, “I don’t have enough time to ________.” Often, their distractions make for cramming, and the cramming makes for error, and voilà! Not enough time.
Remember, if the distractions were reduced or eliminated, you could plan a lot more into your day, and get a lot more done.
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From the Coach’s Box: Make a list of your typical distractions – things that get in the way of you accomplishing the things you say you want. Internet, books, TV, phone calls, email, etc. You know your daily (hourly?) distractions. Pick one day this week and promise yourself you will not engage in any distractions. Just for one day. You can do it. Tell a friend that this is your commitment, and ask them to hold you accountable, by telling them that you’ll let them know the following day that you succeeded in living a distraction-free day.
