A small growing child lives a lifetime in a few precious years, they feel like everything takes too darned long. 
Perhaps it’s because they’re always flitting and dancing and bouncing with all the excitement life has to offer. For them, everything is a new adventure that makes us old folks appear to move too slowly around them.
As we grow older, however, we find ourselves trying to breathe as the world flits, dances and bounces around us in such a hurry we can’t seem to keep up. Thousands of hits of Information pound us every day. From internet, radio, television, cell phones, and more we are being bombarded and it makes us feel like we’re always running behind.
For the last two weeks I have felt that myself, describing to my team and family that I feel like the horse chasing the cart down a steep hill. Of course, self-inflicted expectation is what leads me there – I have a very good habit of trying to fit more into a day than a day can hold. It’s only bad when I find myself chasing that cart. Otherwise, I have a huge pool of energy and seem to accomplish more in a day than anyone else expects.
It’s times like these I need to stop, take a deep breath and quit trying to be everything to everyone. (Another habit I struggle to break.) Then I look at the three lessons I teach busy managers, and begin applying them to myself.
- Step back and take a look at the BIG PICTURE.
- List ACTIONS that will help you reach your goal.
- DELEGATE to others what you don’t need to do yourself.
Focus on those three things reminded me I needed to stop the interruptions and finish some of the work I’d started. They struck a chord by reminding me to focus on the important actions, not every action that sprung to my head, and that I can off-load some things to others.
That being said, I hope the team doesn’t feel too overworked this week while I delegate and focus. Lucky for me, I have a group of exceptionally dedicated individuals who I adore and who help me become successful at what I do. Thanks Team!