Quiet the Noise - Focus on the Essential!
A while back I wrote a piece called “Distraction Assassinators” and described what I considered the top 5 distractions in life and workplace and how to eliminate or in my case ASSASSINATE them ( you can get the pdf by going on my website, www.joshuagoldcoaching.com, and downloading it). It was a bit tongue and cheek with Lucy Lui as O-Ren Ishii, her character in Kill Bill, on the cover of the piece.
The other afternoon I was sitting at my desk trying to get some work done. My superpower time is before noon. So any Frogs that need to be consumed better happen then. So you can imagine that I was having a difficult time focusing on what I had wanted to do and the words came to me like an almost out-of-body experience, “quiet the noise — focus on the essential”. I imagine this is what Kevin Costner felt like when he heard a voice from afar say “ if you build it they will come”.
If I break it down, we are dealing with two very fundamentally...
Distractions, Distractions, Distractions....
Sneaky little things…….
This is not the first time that I have written about this topic and I am sure it won’t be the last. Each morning I go through my morning routine. The routine itself doesn’t matter. Though I think mine is too long;). I need to trim it down a bit. Of late I think that distractions are part of my morning routine.
Interesting thought. I am going to say this again “ distractions are part of my morning routine.” What exactly is a distraction? Let’s start there. According to Webster's definition, a distraction is a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else.
Let's flip that around for a moment. Maybe what I am doing is a distraction to the initial distraction. For example, I am writing this article, blog, morning missive.. whatever you want to call it and I look up the word distraction. That takes me away from or prevents me from giving my full attention to something else. In this...
