Seeing things through + seeing through things: productivity & capability

Hello Reader,

Such a sand stormy weather! Waaah #UAElife

I was just thinking yesterday how I love whenever the weather is gloomy, it naturally moves me towards thinking inwards rather than coming back to default of being always on the go.

Here are a few things that I wrote in my musings:

1 POWERFUL QUESTION

Attention is the new currency. If so, how are you spending your wealth of attention?
Is it spent on people that really matter? Is it spent on strangers that truly provides value for your growth? 🤔

3 IDEAS

Urgent
How about we step back and OBSERVE every task that comes to our plate – can you see that almost everything poses urgency?

Whether at work, on social media, personal matters, it’s as though everything is screaming: prioritise me.

Before we deem anything worthy of our adrenaline, how about we slow down and objectively see things as they are: is this really urgent or just another thing we use to divert our attention away from things that need our focus?

Important
If you think about it, most of the things that really MOVES the needle, the important things, are those that take more time and NOT URGENT.

It’s because these things require adequate amount of thinking and listening to your gut feeling before you make the next most intelligent step.

However, if we always fill our schedule with things we deem “important” just because it is “urgent”, then how are we going to have a mental space and time for the things that are relevant?

DELEgaTION
(Caps intended) According to productivity hacks, 50% of our work is disguised as important and urgent especially when you are not smart enough to cut through the bull. For these things, you should either DELETE them or DELEGATE them wisely.

2 INSPIRATIONS

💭Being afraid of becoming unhappy later should not stop us from being happy now.

💭A lot of times, pity is empathy in disguise. Be wise enough to not get offended with other people’s pity, but wiser enough knowing how to express active empathy.

1 STRATEGY

Our value is not defined by the amount of things we need to do on our to-do lists or always looking busy.

Rather, it’s in our ability to smartly move through obstacles at work while intelligently providing value through either of these three: more sales, less cost, or more time.