Life is busy. Not always productive but busy. We fill our days will appointments, emails, texts, meetings, errands, chores, exercise, social media and then we might get to the actual work. The work that is our supposed core function. We may have the ability to prioritize our time or share priorities with our teams. We might delegate or decide to keep the task for ourselves. An emergency might intercede and flip everything sideways. A clarification might lead us to understand a project has to go back several steps because it is off course. Life is busy.
Life is busy and sometimes we walk into meetings and make decisions. Sometimes we email responses that direct a project to take on specific objectives. We have conversations outside of the meetings that alter previous deteriorations. All of this happens with justification but these things are happening without taking a pause and off you run to the next meeting. Life is busy.
If you are leading teams or employees, if you are part of a whole, if you are an entrepreneur running a solo endeavor it strengthens your decisions and intentions when you take a pause. Take a pause to share your decisions. Take a pause to explain the new priorities. Take a pause to understand the impact you expect to see on other initiatives from the new direction of a project. The pause is a reflection. The pause is a deep breath. A pause is where the strength of your decision lies.
In this quiet space you can create a habit of strategic thinking, planning and communication. Its how your team or your customers or community stay on the same page. You develop clarity not just for yourself but for others. You explain your thought process. You may solicit feedback and guidance. You build team and trust. You thank everyone for their hard work and discuss regrouping. Your pause is powerful because it is your leadership space. You put the grind on pause to make sure everyone understands what’s next, what’s their role and talk about how it’s going to go.
Life is busy. There are only so many hours in a day and only so much energy each person can commit to the high demand tasks. Taking the pause allows you to get clear and make the most of this time and energy. It takes less time to pause than it does to make mistakes that take you back to the beginning. It takes less time than burning out employees. It takes less time than having to bring in new teammates to replace those you lose due to poor company culture.
Life is busy but taking the pause on the chaos and hustle provides clarity for you and those you rely on.
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