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Decision Making
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When everything I do is urgent and important, what can I change?
- Beyond heroic management
- Take time to make time
- Fear or growth: your choice
- Where to begin change
- Tips of the week - more efficient decision-making and better quality decisions
- Be heard and understood the first time
Stretch yourself thin, stress yourself out, work longer hours (than is sensible), take on more responsibility (than is sensible), and make your job harder (than is sensible). The attitudinal basis of this overwork-as-an-end-in-itself game can be understood and changed, for a more healthy approach to managing ourselves and others. Read more, download free.
Get Off the Treadmill
It's easy to become mesmerized by the 10 Urgent and Important Things To Do Today that relentlessly present themselves for attention immediately we've dealt with the previous Top 10. We think we must first get them under control before we can afford the luxury of strategic thinking and well-considered planning. It's common practice, though obviously not a sensible one.
Caught in this trap, we may register This is a nightmare but I'm not a quitter! or I don't think I can do this for much longer, or I'm not sure I'm cut out for this. But we usually continue anyway, ignoring or suppressing our instincts, wisdom and real needs.
It makes as much sense as running low on fuel while accelerating past gas stations because we have to get somewhere.
The wrong path to your goals will never lead you there. However how hard you work to do things right, they're always going to be the wrong things. Given how easy it is to establish you're on the wrong path, it's surprising how often people behave as though they don't understand this simple truth. They miss or suppress the warning signals. Read the full article . . .
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