Helping to Position Leaders and Organizations for Greater Global Impact
Russ Cline, Founder of Leader Mundial, Executive Coach & Managing Partner of the Orange County Barnabas Group, is certified with the Paterson Center as a LifePlan and StratOp Facilitator and speaks, writes, trains, and consults on global and non-profit leadership issues.
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We also will host Leadership Summits in South Africa, Ecuador, Kazakhstan and the Philippines in October/November of this year. Contact me if you’d like more information.
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LEADERSHIP QUOTE:
"Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no." Steve Jobs
A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:
This month we're looking at these words, YES and NO. Powerful words with some great prompts, challenges and reminders around them. To read past posts, visit my full site HERE.
Classic Steve Jobs in the simplest form. He actually goes a little bit deeper on this one here:
"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what It means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."
Steve Jobs, Apple
I have a timer on my desk. It's a simple countdown timer, and sometimes when I'm overcome with distractions, I'll set the timer for a period of time, and then FOCUS until the timer goes off. It allows me to often get the project done, the email written, the response checked, and it's a simple way to focus in on something that I need to get done.
It's a gimmick really, because my phone still rings, my email and messages still send notifications, I can still be interrupted, but it's a simply exercise in FOCUS and it's only effective when I say NO to the distractions that pull me away from what I've determined to be the most important thing.
We live in a world of distractions, with some of them being really good, and some of them taking us away from what it is that we've identified as the most important.
Reading this quote from Jobs was simply a reminder to me to use the power of FOCUS and the word NO to attack the things that I've committed to do, chosen to do, and need to do.
What have you found that helps you manage distractions, allowing you to FOCUS?