Channel Eye has joined forces with Royston Guest, leading Business Growth Coach and CEO/Founder of Pathways Global, in our series, ‘Ask the Business Coach’.
How much of yesterday did you spend DOING, and how much did you spend THINKING?
As business owners and leaders, it’s incredibly easy to spend all our time on the dancefloor: meetings, emails, customers, problems, people, decisions, deadlines. Doing. Doing. Doing. But high-performing leaders recognise that being busy and being effective are not the same thing. They deliberately create space to think, not just time to do.
Three key takeaways
- Schedule balcony time.
- Don’t focus on being busy; focus on being productive.
- Identify and focus on your three big rocks.
Episode timestamps
- [1.11] High-performance leaders know when to dance and know when to get to the balcony because they know they are not just paid to do; they are paid to think.
- [4.05] Block out meetings with yourself, and title it Balcony time. Use balcony time at the start and end of the week. On a Monday morning, schedule 30
minutes to plan the day and week ahead – sense-check your diary, rearrange your priorities – preview the week ahead. Do the same on a Friday to review the past week – what worked well, what didn’t, what blindsided you, how could you have dealt with it differently, what needs to change. - [6.25] Busy is a state of mind. Don’t focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Focus on the three big rocks that will move the needle, which only
you can do. - [9.15] Our next clue in the A -Z series of Are You Wired for Success is C = Curiosity.
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