Good Morning,
My current read is "Excellence in Leadership" by John White (http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/4570-0.html). This book talks about Leadership in extreme environments under tough conditions and share secrets used by one of history's exemplars of leadership under pressure, Nehemiah. Nehemiah wnnt to the ruins of Jerusalem and organized the people to rebuild the city walls amid opposition, attacks and subterfuge.
One section of the book that jumped out at me was facing opposition. As leaders and as every day people we face all kinds of opposition. This opposition can come from more than other people who are at odds with us. It can come from distractions, from unforeseen complications and from every day life.
These challenges may not be as brutal as facing Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, throughout the day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbSpAsJSZPc&feature=related) but it may feel that way when you get that next crisis email from the boss or worse, from the bosses boss or higher up.
These situations send ripples through out days and before we know, if we are not focused, our day ends up far from the destination we had set for it when we started that morning, or if we are even more organized, the night before.
Building flexibility into our day is one way to cope with the various forms of opposition to our time and resources as mentioned in a previous message.
Another way to keep on track is to keep reminders, note pads with high level to do's on them so that when the crisis or challenge or full body tackle is over, we can get back to what we had planned to and thus need to do.
Of course, with the changes in the day, our priorities change and what we planned for in the morning may no longer be the highest priority, and as such, we need to rethink our goals and then move forward to where we need to be from that point.
Doing spot checks for our goals each day is something that will help us get to where we need to be, and allows us both flexibility in how he face the onrush of opposition from interruptions, challenges, and attacks from others when they occur.
Remember your goals, why you are doing what you are doing, the big picture, in each of these spot checks. And when you keep that in mind as you rethink your options for going forward, it will help ground you and keep you on course.
How you start the day is often not how you end the day. The paths we take through the day often are not those we chose, but it is our choice how to react to these challenges and more importantly, when the challenges and distractions have ended, it is our choice on how we do our spot checks and get ourselves back on track.
Enjoy!
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