The world will take as much of you as you allow, leaving you nothing if you don’t manage it. Guard your time for all that you need and want to do to maintain a healthy, balanced, and productive life.
Time management is an important tool to use in your arsenal of tools. Get focus on what you want to do, generate the energy to do it, amplify your courage, and get productive.
With the high performance coaching structure I use clarity, energy, courage, productivity, and influence make the foundation that supports the six mastery pillars of presence, psychology, physiology, productivity, persuasion, and purpose. That structure helps you build a high performance life that you will enjoy and be proud of.
In the past 30 days I’ve rallied well with my self-coaching. The tools I focused on were clarity, energy, and presence knowing they would help me improve in all areas. While my productivity is better I feel it can be even better, and my influence can use some work still too.
The structure of my day is still loose. I’m struggling with the balance between having it be too rigid and too soft. Neither extreme will work for me, personally, though I acknowledge a rigid schedule does work for some — like you, maybe.
Part of my problem with with shoring up my structure is that historically I have been proud of my ability to be available to people. Maybe that’s an extension of my hospitality background — availability seems like part of hospitality to me. That said, I’ve long coached innkeepers to set their boundaries and not have 24/7 availability. That’s what office hours are for, specific check in and check out times, taking breaks, and for small inns even hours for when the phone gets answered are all part of setting the necessary boundaries. I know better than to have such easy availability! It’s hard to lead a productive life without rules, boundaries, and limitations. When you are always available for people it’s hard to live your own life.
That’s where time management, calendars, and various productivity tools come in. Add to those aids concepts like block time and hourly breaks you have a manageable and healthy life.
Life is like a tapestry. A monochromatic or undesigned tapestry (a life without rules, boundaries, and limitations) isn’t nearly as interesting as a carefully planned and executed tapestry (a life with rules, boundaries, and limitations).
High performance living is that ongoing feeling of full engagement, joy, and confidence that comes from consistently living from your best self. It’s the result of heightened and sustained levels of clarity, energy, courage, productivity, and influence, and it results in a more satisfying life.
Are you ready for high performance living?