3-Words That Can Sidetrack You on Your Career Path Excerpts from an article by Greg McKeown Influencer, LinkedIn New York Times Bestselling Author We have a problem - and the odd thing is we not only know about it, were celebrating it. Just today, someone boasted to me that she was so busy shes averaged four hours of sleep a night for the last two weeks.... She was proud of the fact. She is not alone. What are typically rational people so irrational in their behavior? The answer, I believe, is that were in the midst of a bubble; one so vast that to be alive today in the developed world is to be affected, or infected by it. Its the bubble of bubbles: ... Its The Busyness Bubble. Not only are we addicted to the drug of busyness, we are pushers too. We have added absurd amounts of ... activities. And with them, busyness, sleep deprivation and stress. Luckily, there is an antidote: ... The disciplined pursuit of less, but better. A growing number of people are making this shift. I call these people Essentialists. These people are designing their lives around what is essential and eliminating everything else ... These Essentialists ... take morning walks, have actual weekends (not working), turn technology off for set periods daily, create tech-free zones, take time off Facebook, call friends, put space on their calendars to get important work done instead of going to meetings. Even Google has sleep pods and Twitter has meditation rooms. Time magazine calls this a revolution. Become an Essentialist: 1. Schedule a personal quarterly retreat or time to evaluate and plan. 2. Rest well to excel. Top performers get eight hours sleep every night. 3. Add expiration date on new activities. Make the memory or perform the service, and move on. 4. Say no to a good opportunity every week, no matter how good it might look on your resume or what prestige it might bring you. See the madness for what it is and join the growing community of Essentialists to get more of what matters in our one precious life.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:58:39 +0000