Some of my Entrepreneurial CEO clients seem to be challenged
in the arena of focus, stimulation and that constant need to know they are
doing things right and evolving.
Fortunately they are humble enough to ask for feedback and
to respond to it. They are constantly seeking and expanding and setting new
goals and embarking on new challenges.
These folk are high energy, restless, questioning and taking
action.
One of my clients is harnessing the power of purpose in his
quest to go beyond the MD/CEO realm. His purpose is meaningful and spiritual
and it drives him and pushes him to influence and inspire so many others. He is
relentless with it and it rubs off wherever he goes.
Another is running the NY Marathon and three of them are
taking their business to a new continent and getting involved in global matters
for their companies.
They say if we are not growing we are accelerating our
spiritual death.
I do feel however that there is a balance and when we feed
that will to expand constantly we could also be feeding something else which
doesn’t allow us to be fully present in the Now. Eckhart Tolle wrote a
brilliant book called the Power of Now (followed by A new Earth) and he said
that if we are happy right now then we can string happy moments together
continuously. He went on to say: “we are neither our feelings nor our thoughts”
– they are only transitory.
A client once said that things don’t come across his desk in
threes anymore but in nines and I suspect that he was also responsible for
attracting many of those two.
Stephen Covey in “First things first” spoke about Quadrant
three being the quadrant of illusion….items that are urgent (but not important)
and have the illusion of being important and we feel we have to attend to them
straight away …like a new e-mail arriving
or a phone ringing….yet it could just be another distraction.
Our busyness makes us feel valued and important but are we
being effective? We need to:
-
Decide What the four or five most important
items are that line up with our vision and purpose. Some companies are in
trouble because they have lost the “why” for what they do.
- Be disciplined about sticking to that agenda and those items chosen. My school headmaster spoke recently about two most important values of passion and discipline (I am better at the former).
- Complete items and then pause or stop to reflect
- Achieve the measures that you have set and feel that sense of accomplishment before moving onto the next agenda
- When you do allow yourself to be distracted along the way to have fun, do it consciously as it may be quality time to recharge.
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