Do you allow yourself to get bogged down in petty things? If you find yourself wasting time on office politics or personal gossip; or if you are always dashing from one task or person to another, you won’t have the energy to play at the top level.
Let’s discuss some basic ideas to refine your performance and create sound results – both in your personal and professional life:
1. Be transparent.
Organize your life around transparency. It will allow you to stop playing the guessing game with yourself and others around you, which can take up a lot of unnecessary energy. Transparency takes your discussions to the next level.
2. Simplify.
Life can be complex as you try to juggle family, work, profession, personalities, priorities, and schedules. How do you simplify your life?
• Build healthy relationships with important people in your life—children, spouse, partner, internal and external customers.
• Do important things first—make sure you have time for exercise, quiet time, family time, reading, and relationship building. Focus on top priority things
• Celebrate small successes.
• Count your blessings.
By taking these few steps, you bring simplicity to complexity.
3. Be non-judgmental.
A lot of energy gets unnecessarily expended in envy, jealousy, and judgment of others. When you take an approach of “malice toward none,” you free yourself from negative energy. These liberating feelings can be invested in creative and innovative work. The judgment of others is really judgment of self. What you see in others is a reflection of what you see in yourself.
For sound performance, the focus needs to be on top priority things!