We get it. You have a lot on your plate and need to keep spinning those plates. But you also need to allow yourself to hit the pause button at regular intervals. You don’t need to be ‘on’ all the time. When you pause during a busy day (or take time off work) and allow time for personal and executive reflection, you gain access to more of your inner wisdom and insights. Reflection helps create insight, better decisions, and better results. When you stop for a while, you can gain new perspectives, ideas, renewed energy, and determination.
So don’t just run, run, run. Being busy is not necessarily the same as being productive and successful. Being busy is not a badge of honour. Unless we are doing the right, relevant things that really make a difference, we maybe shouldn’t be doing them at all. Think ‘do less, achieve more’. Think strategically and choose carefully how you spend your time.
Some of the most successful people we’ve encountered are not those who are always ‘on’ but those who can focus while at work and equally really focus on being off when they’re off. They are good at being 100% present wherever they are and whatever they are doing. We talk more about this in our latest book ‘Supercharged Leader’
So allow yourself to chill now and then. Relax. Recharge. It’s a crucial life strategy. Enjoy.
With Elisabet Vinberg Hearn
