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Are you getting the tension just right?

By | David Klaasen | Helping You Create Clarity, Inspire Your People & Drive Performance | Retain your best people | Changing Management Mindsets and Behaviour | Practical Behaviour Analytics

You can only control what you are aware of, what you are unaware of controls you. Awareness is very empowering but we often neglect it because we are too busy; addicted to the urgency of crises and fire fighting. But there is another way.

We clutter and overload our prefrontal cortex (the part of our brain that we use to think about stuff) with urgent things like mistakes and errors of others, deadlines and client calls. These issues give us plenty of excuses for not making time to address the important things like planning, building relationships, research and learning.

Hooked on Adrenalin – but where’s the joy?

Have you noticed how the urgent stuff is always so critical because the consequences of not doing it are usually immediate? This means we get an adrenalin buzz and feel good (for a short while) because we feel we have accomplished something or averted even bigger problems. The trouble is that this is actually an addictive trap. We get hooked on the adrenalin buzz and if it’s not there, consciously or unconsciously, we feel ‘something is not right’.

A very wise man called Siddhartha was once meditating on the bank of a meandering river and he overheard two men chatting as they drifted by in a boat. They were discussing the tuning of a stringed instrument and how, if the strings are too slack ‘it’s not right’ and if they are too tight ‘it’s not right’. It led him to think about the balance of life and how we need just the right amount of tension in life. If there is too much we get over-stressed and too little we become dull.

Where is the balance in your life and how are you maintaining it? Were is the joy in your work and how can you experience it more fully?

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