Didja ever notice how your best ideas come to you in the shower? Or while you’re at the gym? Or on a really long hike?
Didja ever notice how awesome it feels when you look at your day’s schedule tomorrow and there is NOTHING there?
Didja ever notice that time management experts don’t really talk about that stuff?
I have been a top performer and producer for many, many years and I have had the profound privilege to know some of the most innovative and important people of our time. These are CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies, world-renowned experts in their fields of science and math and marketing, business leaders who change the way people live their lives with the products and services they bring to market.
And they all have one thing in common. They work hard. There is no doubt about that. And they are very, very focused on mastery of their craft. To be sure.
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But, they also have another very important thing in common.
They have wide open spaces in their schedules.
Wide open spaces that allow their natural genius to fly free. To lead them to the right answers, to explore the book in front of them, or meet the person on the plane next to them.
I believe that our brains do not work in a linear fashion. I believe there is no such thing as control and we fool ourselves when we try to exert control as a way to get where we want to go.
I believe we are all blessed with natural genius and it is a joy when it is let loose upon the world.
Look at the greats! Every one of them had some part of their schedule that they gave over to wide open spaces. Edison with his “lights out, doors closed” quiet time. Churchill with his morning “constitutionals”. Leaders who schedule themselves three weeks non-stop on the road and one week completely off!
The list goes on and on.
As an example, one of my friends – ex-CEO of one of the most successful tech firms ever – told me that when he has a really tricky problem to solve or a big deal to land – he goes to the ski slopes for the day.
Can you break the addiction of control and linear thinking to allow your true greatness to shine through?
Love your natural genius UP!
The Irreverent Sales Girl