If you’re like most small business owners and leaders, you have too much on your plate.
You’re constantly juggling priorities, and sometimes it can feel like your company, employees, family, and the whole world are depending on you. To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling in “IF” – “It is tough to keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.” So what is a person to do?
Schedule a Clarity Break
For our EOS clients we recommend scheduling a Clarity Break. A Clarity Break is a regularly scheduled appointment on your calendar with yourself. You define what regular is – a half hour daily, two hours weekly, a half day monthly. It’s up to you. The doing of it is what matters.
Step out of the noise and make room for clearer thinking and better decisions.
Find the Right Place
Next, find a place to meet with yourself. EOS founder Gino Wickman finds a Starbucks near his home. I like Panera Bread personally. Clients of mine go to a library at a local college or in their town. You may even be able to use the living room in your own home if there is a time of day when you can be alone and uninterrupted. Wouldn’t Tranquility Base on the moon be ideal?
Bring a Blank Pad
Finally, clients ask, ” What do I do on these Clarity Breaks?”
As Gino says, just take a blank pad with you. Using technology tends to become a distraction. We are tempted to just do one email or just surf the web for that one project back at work. Don’t do it. Put your phone and other devices in airplane mode after arranging a fail-safe method for your family or assistant to notify you in case of dire emergency.
Back to you and that blank pad. Stare at it and your mind will help you. The important things will surface. Ideas will pop up. Try it. You’ll be amazed.
Make More Time to Work on Your Business
A Clarity Break can help you step away from daily demands and focus on the bigger picture. EOS can help you turn that clarity into lasting progress.
Schedule a free 90-Minute Meeting to learn how EOS can help you regain control of your time, strengthen your leadership team, and move your business forward.
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