Top 7 Steps to Better Public SpeakingWritten by Sandra Schrift
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| | Accessing Your Own WisdomWritten by Deirdre McEachern
"Let nothing come between you and light." -Henry David Thoreau Sometimes I spend quite a bit of time working with my clients on personal productivity issues like time management, prioritization, and effective systems. We do this because it is much easier to achieve work-life balance when we are productive! Having a sense of accomplishment helps us to more easily shift from our work to our personal lives when we feel need to do so. One piece of personal productivity strategy that often gets overlooked is that sometimes to do more, we need to do less. Much less. As in nothing. Some call it down time, others call it recharge time and others call it meditation. It doesn't matter what you call it or what form it takes for you. The key is to quiet your mind and be open to surprising breakthroughs that can happen. I do some of my best strategic thinking when I am doing non-mind engaging activities -- running, yoga, cooking, walking, cleaning my house, doing dishes, journaling. Basically, anything that is routine enough to be done almost automatically. I have noticed that if I can manage to take my brain out of fast lane for a minute or two my creativity and my ability to creatively solve problems become reinvigorated. Mind you, it can take me more than a few minutes of these routine activities to move my thoughts from their usual whirlwind of activity in fast lane across all of my 'to-do list traffic' to make it to this wonderful slower place! I recognize that I need to give myself adequate time to start activity (still mentally on overdrive), get engrossed in it (starting to slowly shift gears) and then eventually slow down enough to relax my thoughts.
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