Personal Productivity Coaching (Step #1)
Never memorize something
that you can look up.
- Albert Einstein
How do you get more focus and clarity?
1) Empty
The first step towards gaining more focus and clarity is in "emptying" and clearing out your mental space.
Most people rely too much on memory. It worked well when we were younger, and didn't have as many commitments. Do you now find yourself forgetting important commitments, or notice things fall through the cracks occasionally?
Don't use up your valuable energy attempting to keep track of your commitments and next actions in your short term memory bank.
To Empty your mind & clear out your physical & mental space, ask yourself (and write out your lists of incompletions, or record them on your 'task' lists):
___What's on my mind?
___What is incomplete?
___What have I agreed to do?
___What must I do?
___What do I
want to do?
Group your incomplete actions by the action or location where that task must be completed (meeting agendas; calls; projects; next actions; etc.).
During a personal coaching session, your coach will spend 1/2 a day with you, assisting you in 'emptying' and capturing all of your incomplete action items in your new workflow system.
Most people are amazed to find they have large lists of next actions (often 100-200 actionable items) they carry around in their memory. Once those action items are 'downloaded' and put in to a system where they are easily recalled and acted upon, focus and clarity improve dramatically.
