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3 Simple Success Practices for Work/Life Balance
By Sylvia Warren, MBA / Consciousness Coach in Business, Leadership & Life
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Super Achievers Suffer from Achievement Amnesia
Busy professionals, executives and entrepreneurs execute complex strategies, lead wildly divergent teams, meet ambitious goals, and deliver on their commitment to the success of their organizations. Yet often they feel like professional and personal success still eludes them.
Why? It is not just because the pace of work and life keeps accelerating. Smart individuals like you want to perform at their best. Driven by their own expectations of perfection and performance, they want to achieve all the lofty goals thrust upon them. Even when those goals are unrealistic, they feel compelled to accomplish them. So they try to get more and more done, faster and faster.
As a consequence, they find themselves moving at dizzying speeds. Constant races to the next finish line overwhelm their focus and drain their energy--day after day, week after week, month after month. The result...their remarkable achievements become a blur.
This leaves highly accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals feeling like they are not productive enough or effective enough. They are suffering from a modern day malaise I call Achievement Amnesia - no immediate recall of achievements or successes.
Do you experience these symptoms? You're so focused on what you haven't done yet that you can't remember what you've already achieved. Although you've made substantial and significant progress on your priorities, you only pay attention and give credence to what you haven't done yet.
If this sounds or feels familiar, Achievement Amnesia may be robbing you of balance in your work and life.
Re-Balance Your Work/Life
Daily work/life balance practices allow you to experience and enjoy the success you seek. You learn to build on your small wins and leverage them into big gains. When tailored to fit your needs and values, simple proven practices make a real difference in the satisfaction and fulfillment you gain from your work and life.
Easy practices are the most effective. So try these 3 daily work/life practices on for size and see how they work for you.
1. Start-Your-Day Strategy. Start your day without email. Spend the first 15 minutes of your day planning and prioritizing. Use the next 45 minutes – your prime time – to work on a high-yield priority. High-yield priorities give you the greatest possible return for your time, attention and energy. Notice how much you get done when you schedule and keep this first hour of your day free from constant email and phone interruptions.
2. Energy Management Practice. Take 2-3 minute brain breaks every 90 minutes. This allows your brain to be in its natural oscillation where it refreshes itself for another round of peak performance. Get up from your computer. Walk around. Go outside or look out a window and stare aimlessly at the sky to clear your mind. This is probably the real origin of blue sky thinking.
3. Daily Check-In. At the end of your work day, take 5 minutes to review your progress and see what you've achieved. Check items off your to-do list and notice the pleasure it gives you. Rank each priority accomplished as a 'small win' or 'big gain.' Jot down what worked well for you and what could work better. Consider how you can do more of what works well. Then have fun celebrating your small wins. They lead to big gains. So toast with a glass of water what you achieve each day - savoring the clean clear taste of what you have accomplished. Give yourself an "A" or a GOLD star on the checked-off items of your to-do list. Share with loved ones and family one memorable thing that each of you is glad to report. It may sound silly. Just notice how you feel when you pay close attention to all the incremental states of your well earned success.
If you let them, these daily life balance practices will release you from the fog of Achievement Amnesia. Notice the satisfying difference in your sense of accomplishment and feel your self confidence thrive.
Author's Bio
As a former corporate warrior, business consultant and graduate school lecturer turned Consciousness Coach, I show smart business women how to get the results they want with less effort. I coach executives, entrepreneurs and professionals in how to leverage the best of who they are so they achieve remarkable results in business, leadership and life.
My Simply the Best Coaching programs help clients use smart solutions and fun proven practices to keep them focused, confident and reaping the right results with more ease.
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