Make It Be Great!
Tuesday September 22nd 2009, 12:01 pm
Filed under: Perspectives in Brief

It’s time to do triage.  

Labor Day is over and we’re diving back into a regular, post summer holiday mode routine.  Before the saying “It’s always been done this way” pops into your mind as an automatic answer to why you’re going to dive in doing things in the same old way, start doing triage.  We’re doing it more and more in the work place and it’s time to do triage in your individual worlds as well.  

We’re overbooked, overwhelmed, overcommitted and over-exhausted and that’s not a way to dive into what is usually the busiest time of the year.  Instead it’s time to do triage and choose the work you must do, let go of the work you must NOT do, commit to whatever it is you know you can accomplish and say “no” to the rest.  It’s time to figure out how you can let your personal life be as important as your professional  life, as ‘play’ time energizes you as much as sleep does (albeit in a different way).  

So what can you do about it?  

Learn how to say no in such a way that there’s something replacing the no so it’s not an all or nothing answer.  

Learn to commit to the things you really want to do or know you have to do to move forward, not out of obligation but out of choice.  

Work with a coach.  I’m not tooting my own horn here…I’m saying learn how to use language to evolve you, make choices that will enable learning and growth and strengthen relationships (among other things, like discover what you haven’t known or pay attention to what you might have been ignoring).

If you work with a coach, respect the time and space you need to take in order to be successful in the coaching intervention.  Remember, no magic wands.  Every choice you make builds your future right now.   

http://www.abetterperspective.com/How_To_Choose_a_Coach.pdf  

Or…. you can answer “But I’ve always done things this way” and stay exactly where you are.  Your choice.  

I’ll leave you with this…
 “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” - Carl Jung.  Start choosing and creating a life you love.  If you do,  work will become ‘play’.  Make it  be great!

Donna Karlin
Founder and Principal
A Better Perspective
http://www.abetterperspective.com
ISSN 1913-6307
 

 

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Are You Learning As Fast As The World is Changing?
Tuesday September 22nd 2009, 11:59 am
Filed under: Perspectives in Brief

The world is changing faster than the speed of light. Many lead organizations based on how things were done way back when but that is no longer relevant. People think and communicate in sound bites, dealing with a multiple of issues at the same time. Focus is diluted and it’s hard to manage a team of fast paced multi-level thinkers when you’re used to dealing with one thing at a time.

Let’s face it; when was the last time you were only working on one thing at a time and only had one priority?

Exactly.

So how to you handle a multiple of pressures and priorities without feeing as if you’re juggling too many balls, worried you’re going to drop them all?

Communicating often and in real time thinking certainly helps. Using technology to keep your finger on the pulse of the pace of what’s happening, who’s doing what and when and status of where things are, what is needed and what is available to you in any single time frame will keep you on top of whatever you need to be handling at that moment.

Next, be a learner. Always be a learner. Recognize the world is ever changing and fields of practice are being invented even as you read this. Keep asking yourself the questions “What don’t I know? What do I need to retain and what is diluting my time and focus? What haven’t I thought of yet?” Be your own reality check so you pay attention to the rest….the rest of what you haven’t thought of, learned yet, or considered.

Then you can evolve your world and evolve within your world.

I leave you with this…”It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.” - Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer

With deepest respect,

Donna Karlin

Founder and Principal

A Better Perspective

http://www.abetterperspective.com

ISSN 1913-6307

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