As CEO of a growing business, I am especially challenged to strengthen my executive function skills—organizing, planning, prioritizing and decision-making.
The goal of all of this, Dr. Edward Hallowell reminds us, is “…to program you and your brain so that habit, routine and other automatic functions can take over a big chunk of the work, freeing up your frontal lobes to do the creative, sophisticated work they are uniquely qualified to do.”
Crazy Busy gives us the #1 solution: Make sure you do what matters most to you. Don’t get sidetracked.
Here’s the entire list:
- Make sure you do what matters most to you. Don’t get sidetracked.
- Create a positive emotional environment where you are.
- Find your unique rhythm
- Invest your time wisely
- Don’t waste time screensucking (computer, TV, video games, blackberry, etc.)
- Identify and control gemmelsmerch — any force that distracts you from you or ought to be doing, such as telephones, cell phones, TV, radio, email, and, my favorite “the seemingly uncontrollable wanderings of your mind.”
- Delegate what you don’t like or are not good at if at all possible
- Slow down
- Give one task your full attention and stop ineffective multitasking
- Play
So let me recommend two books:
CrazyBusy – Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. Available at http://www.drhallowell.com/store/crazybusy.html
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston.
Best wishes!
Dr. Rohn Kessler
July 6th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
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