So, if you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series, you’ve built a picture of what you want from your worklife, and what you need to focus on to achieve it.
But what are you currently focussing on?
You’ll get the answer to this question by looking at how you’re spending your time. Bottom line, if you’ve been feeling that work and life need a bit of a sort out, the chances are there’s a mismatch between what you should be focused on, and what you’re actually doing.
I take some of my coaching clients through this process in detail, and the occasional one says, “yes, but there are lots of things I have to do.” The thing is we don’t have to do anything. You may imagine that you have little choice about how you spend your time. That, my friend, is mistake number one. That, indeed, is allowing time to spend you. It’s giving over your focus to things that are not in keeping with who you are and what you say you want.
We’ll get into more detail about the whole mismatch thing in the next post.
But today’s exercise is all about getting to grips with what an average day in your life actually looks like.
A Day In The Life Of…
Over the next 24 hour, what I’d like you do, is step back and review your moment by moment activities. Set a half-hourly, recurring alarm using the timer on your computer, phone, watch or whatever. And when the buzzer goes, make a note of just how you’ve spent the last 30 minutes.
No need to analyse. No need to change what you do. Just observe and make notes.
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What occurs to you as you set yourself the task of doing this exercise?
Earlier posts from the series:
Introducing The Two-Week Work Detox
The Critical Few Activities That Need Your Focus
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Twitter: JulieWalraven
says:
OK, Christine, make me accountable. I know this process. I understand the value but I think subconsciously I want to avoid knowing how much I let time spend me. This is a huge goal for me as my business is now starting to ramp and I need to get a handle on this. I have been coached before to take a look at this, I will give it another try. Thanks!
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Ah, yes, Julie. Time can run away with us sometimes! We can find a million things to do that “must” be done: email, Twitter, phonecalls, checking this or that, making a cup of tea…. Whatever, there’s an argument that says they are forms of resistance; ways we unconsciously create to make sure we don’t get to wholly realise our deepest wishes.
I’ll be interested to hear what you learn from a fresh review!