Friday, March 29, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Yoga for the Mind
Why is it that despite the face we’ve been told from childhood to pay attention, we still haven’t figured it out? It’s not that we aren’t smart. It’s that so many other things are constantly competing for our attention, and all the competition leads to endless distractions and interruptions.
We must commit to change our focus, our habits, and our brain in order to pay attention to what matters and make your attention pay.
We need to be intentional, mindful, with who gets our attention and we must be productive in what gets our attention too.
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In order to change our brain’s way of thinking about attention, we need to stop some of our behaviors. It may feel uncomfortable – like yoga for the mind – to stretch our minds to embrace something unfamiliar and different than what we’ve become accustomed. Like building muscle, it takes practice, routine, and habit. Like yoga for your mind, intentional attention is the deliberate act, daily practice, and commitment to following through with the stretches that make us grow. It’s so worth it.
Are you ready to come to the mat every day, ready to work with the body and mind we have, to get the strength we need to do great things?
Let’s truly pay attention to what matters so we can be happier in our relationships, more fulfilled in the work we do, and safe inter the world we have created. This way we can create meaning, create success, and create a legacy.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Our Society’s New Currency
Intentional attention is our societies new currency. When we invest it wisely, it pays meaningful, long-term dividends. By intentionally and deliberately paying attention to who and what matters, we get the results we want. It might be difficult, but the return on investment in your work, home life and community will be huge.
One of the biggest returns on intentional attention is creating defining moments in life, not just for you, but for others.
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Now is the time to create a life filled with significant moments you will remember, share, and celebrate and that those moments will include the people you love at home and the people you care for at work. It’s time to be proud of your successes and create an experience in the world you will never forget.
Creating significant moments is just the start. Intentional attention pays in so many other ways.
Personally:
- Deepen relationships
- Achieve work-life integration
- Find greater purpose and meaning
- Create more meaningful memories
- Increase wealth
Professionally:
- Create a laser focus
- Boost productivity
- Accelerate results
- Increase profitability
- Enhance accountability
- Grow client-based sales
- Improve customer satisfaction and loyalty
- Enrich team dynamic and improve morale
- Attract and retain top talent
- Get promoted
- Heighten employee engagement
Globally:
- Spread respect and kindness for others
- Protect vital resources
- Honor our environment
- Leave a lasting legacy
We all have responsibilities at work, home, and in our community to pay attention. How well does your attention pay?
Are you willing to make the investment of your attention to the things that matter most to you? Join the Attention Revolution and commit to being strategic and intentional with what you say yes to. Sign up for my newsletter below and receive tips and inspiration on how to let go of what doesn’t matter, so you can be intentional with what does.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
At What Price Do We Forfeit Attention?
The cost of our inattention is real and the consequences are enormous. It’s not just our financial costs that get impacted, but the tangible costs to our personal, professional, and societal costs to our individual and collective lack of attention.
At a personal level, our health, our relationships, and our opportunities for career advancement suffer significantly when we don’t give thoughtful attention to ourselves and the people we care about most. Professional, lack of attention has a dramatic negative impact on our day-to-day productivity, employee engagement, sales, and bottom line results. Globally, our carelessness has led to irreparable hard to our natural resources, plant and animal species, and the planet itself.
The price we are paying for our inattention is far too great.
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We get one life to lead. Is this how we want to choose to spend it? Always overwhelmed, overtired, and stressed? Or, would we rather feel productive at the day’s end, feeling accomplished and joyful knowing what we’ve contributed to our lives and the lives of others? When we pay attention, we get to utilize our talents and skills because we are committed to staying focused.
Paying attention isn't giving intentional attention.
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You may think you are doing work that matters, but maybe you’re not. You may think you make people in your life feel like they matter, but do they really? It’s not that we don’t want to pay attention. We really are trying, but perhaps we fail to see where we could be doing better.
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Thursday, March 07, 2019
Women’s History Month: What Woman Would You Like to Thank?
During Women’s History month we often celebrate the celebrities, authors, poets, and pioneers who have gone before us to create a path.
There are 10 women who have shaped the woman I am today – I’d love you to meet them.
My path has been shaped by this list below. I am who I am today because of these women who are part of my DNA.
Each of these women, while they may not realize it, have been influential to me and role models of greatness that history will one day talk about.
Mum – your strength as a single mum raising two little girls will always astound me. My love of Christmas, and celebrating life’s moments is because of how you role modeled this when we were little girls growing up. You were always, and still are the social butterfly always looking for ways to host others, make them feel special, help them feel seen…. I get that from you.
Aunty Carol – your love of life and laughter is contagious and I get mine from you. You always made us laugh, you find the funny, you role modeled travel and adventure to this little girl from a tiny town. You showed me how big the world really was and that I could be or do anything I wanted in this life. My love of laughter comes from you. My sense of adventure comes from you.
Candy – your wit always makes me giggle and your deep connection to honesty and authenticity is inspiring to me. You will always be one of the greatest loves in my life and as I watched you grow from my baby sister into a successful mum and career woman I burst with pride. Kaftans and cocktails forever.
Megan – your ability to see right into my soul will forever astound me. Your sense of justice inspires me. You saw more than the outside. You helped shape my style, gave me confidence, and helped steer me when my ship felt like it was sinking. You always have the right thing to say at the right time for the right situation. You were right. My history was changed when you walked into my life in those stilettos all those years ago.
Tami – your service to others, your ability to perform, and bring joy and light into the world is a constant reminder to me (and others) of the influence you are in the world. Our histories will be intertwined forever and our journey is marked by so many lessons and celebrations. I am a better performer because of you.
JJ – as a successful businesswoman, devoted mum, constant cheerleader, and encourager… and the world’s best personal trainer I am inspired by your drive, your ability to see (and hold) my potential for me so that I can become stronger, more balanced and even more determined. I see not only physical, but mental and emotional changes because of what we achieve together. History will look back at your see all your hard work in the world and how it forever changed the hearts, minds, and bodies of people and the influence you have to help people unleash their best self.
Tamsen – your brain, your heart, and your beauty inspire people everywhere. I will always be grateful Scott connected us. My goals are achieved because of our accountability. My life is more focused because of you. You change history with the work you do.
Robyn – you were the first ‘motivational’ speaker I ever saw and you helped me see this as a career choice… and you helped me realize I could do that. Your constant encouragement, love, support, and friendship as I have authored books, grown my practice and strengthened my skills on the platform – you were a big part of my history.
Barbara – watching you navigate a male-dominated industry with grace and poise was inspiring to me. You took a chance on me early in my career and helped me see that anything is possible when you pay attention to the details and you deliver 150% more than everyone else. You were the biggest influence in my corporate career, I still hear you in my head even 20 years later.
Jen– couldn’t do life without you my friend. You role model spiritual commitment and faith more than anyone I know. You have been through my whole history and you are the keeper of my deepest secrets. Your love of dreams and beauty inspires me. Life is more glamorous and fun with you in it.
Who is a woman that has influenced your history? Tag them below and tell me why? Can’t wait to hear your stories.
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Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Always Busy, Not Productive.
Are you tired of constantly being busy, not productive?
Do you run from one meeting to the next, yet never feel like you achieve results?
Are your personal and professional lives suffering because you can’t devote quality time and attention to either?
For more than 15 years, I’ve worked with leaders and professionals in a multitude of industries and all list concerns within minutes of our first meeting. They all have something else in common, too – the desire to move past their overwhelmed, overstressed, and overtired existence and lead a more fulfilled, productive, and intentional life.
Do you want that, too?
I think most of us do. Yet that possibility seems forever out of reach in a world that constantly demands more from us. It’s frustrating when we feel like we work so hard to create enough time with those we care about. Many clients share with me that they don’t feel valued at work, and some share they feel the same at home. That makes my heart sad.
My clients also tell me they simply don’t have any enough time in the day to “get it all done.” Can you relate? If so, I will give you the same tough love I give my clients:
You don't have a time management crisis; you have an attention management crisis.
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Attention Pays is a philosophy to become highly productive and achieve lasting work-life integration. (I don’t believe in the work-life balance myth!) It seems there is one fundamental characteristic that too many of today’s leaders are lacking: the ability to give their undivided attention to whom and what matters most at that moment.
I’m not talking heart-hearted, kinda listening, multitasking, doing something on your phone attention. I mean the deliberate, fully present, look-them-in-the-eye type of attention. This crisis is everywhere I look – in our homes, in our workplaces, in our communities. We think we’re paying attention but we’re not and as a result, individuals, professionals, and communities, our genuine engagement has dramatically declined. Our attention is being wasted – stolen by technology, constant interruptions, and our own habits.
We have become an attention deficit society.
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We now accept distracted as the norm. We are so focused on technology, our never-ending to-do list, and our lack of time. As a result, we fail to pay attention to the people, priorities, and passions that are truly important to us. And although we are more connected than at any time in history, we are more disconnected from ourselves, each other, from our work, and from our world than ever before.
You know what I’m talking about, therefore I know you see it, too. No one truly pays attention anymore.
Let’s commit to stop that. Join the Attention Revolution as we unveil strategies to change our behaviors and choices as they relate to our attention. Sign up for my newsletter and discover tips, ideas, and inspiration to stay focused and make better choices. Then finally, you can begin paying attention to what matters most in your life.
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