What's Stopping You?

Colleagues,
 
The first key to getting off the treadmill is to act with intention on a daily basis. This happens in three parts:

1. Develop an awareness of how you spend (or invest) your time by aligning what you do and don’t do with the quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix.
2. Become strategically responsive:
   1. Give it up
   2. Give it back
   3. Give it away
   4. Give it a C
   5. Give it a bounce
3. Become proactive:
   1. Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   2. Leverage your team
   3. Condition others to respect your priorities

List out all of the things you did this week that demanded your time, attention, or emotion. 

1. Which of the strategically responsive strategies could you have used?
2. If you had proactive measures in place (SOPs, team, conditioning), how might your time have looked different?
3. What is stopping you from adopting these strategies?

Next week we will focus on key 2 of getting off the treadmill, using simple steps to identify root problems.

Do good and be well,

​Frederick