Schedule Thinking Time to keep your head clear and your focus strong.
Great business leaders habitually take quiet time to think. Bill Gates is famous for taking two-week thinking breaks. He’s one of the richest people in the world, right? Why do you think that is?
I’m not asking you to sequester yourself in the woods for half a month. All I’m asking is you regularly escape the office for an hour or so to Just. Sit. And. Think.
By working on yourself and the business, you will rise above feeling frustrated and overwhelmed to a clear-headed and confident state. As a result, when you come back into the business, you will be laser-focused and in the right leadership frame of mind.
Schedule your Thinking Time right now.
Need some thinking prompts? Professional fiction writers use writing prompts to get their creative juices flowing. You should do the same to get your thinking juices flowing. There’s no better resource than The Road Less Stupid by serial entrepreneur and business investor Keith J. Cunningham. He writes:
It turns out that the key to getting rich (and staying that way) is to avoid doing stupid things. I don’t need to do more smart things. I just need to make fewer dumb mistakes. The vast majority of our dumb tax is a direct result of emotional, overly optimistic and poorly thought out decisions. ...
Thinking is critical to sustainable success in business; said another way, business is an intellectual sport. The principles and structure suggested in will enable anyone, (regardless of the size of the business, the currency or the industry) to run their business more effectively, make more money, and dramatically increase the likelihood of keeping that money. It all hinges on Thinking Time.
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