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Nigel Buxton Update
| Do you take time to digest? |
March 2006 |
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Dear Nigel,
My grandma always used to say after eating, "Sit
quiet and let your food go down".
Having lived in Italy for many years I can appreciate,
more than the need to sit quiet after eating, rather
the incapacity to move after a "proper" multi-course
meal!
After an intense day of work with back-to-back
meetings and presentations, a quick "hello" to this
customer, and sign-off on that contract (everything
is as we had agreed, just needs a signature!), how
do you feel?
Do you give yourself time to digest that massive
daily "meal" of information and interaction?
With this kind on energetic lifestyle we take in huge
amounts of data (remember my recent newsletter),
and what happens if we just go on adding more and
more? We get chronic indigestion!
When there is a crazy project in the office involving
impossible deadlines, working nights - things get in a
mess. When the project is finished, it is clean-up
time. All the papers get neatly put away, and that
time management filofax comes back out of the
drawer, and "normal" life starts again until the next.
Don't you love that electric energy which comes in a
dynamic and intense environment where things are
getting done? There is movement, never a dull
moment, no time to feel sorry for yourself!
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Storm in the snow-globe - stop shaking
It is like those glass snow-globes with a winter scene
inside and filled with water. When you shake them
the snow comes up and that is all you can see. So
long as you shake you cannot see what the scene is;
there is only a snow-storm. When the shaking stops
slowly slowly the scene becomes clearer and clearer.
When you go out walking in a snow storm, you do put
your head down, point yourself in a certain direction
and go. It is important to be sure that you set off in
the right direction! If, at that critical point, you set
off in the wrong direction, you will not know it for
some time, with all that snow whirling around.
As you go through many snow-storms: it may even
seem like a continuous snow-storm. Don’t you need
to stop shaking the glass-snow-ornament every now
and then, just to check that you are still on course
(towards your long-term goal)?
When the snow is swirling around there is no clarity,
there is only head down and slogging on. How often
in your work do you need to stop shaking and check
if you are on the right way and things are going as
you want? For sure it is more than once a year .
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Once a year you go on holiday and sitting on the
beach, you slow down and it begins to become clear
what you want and what is right for you. YOU KNOW.
Then somehow when you are back at work, you get
shaken up in the snow-storm again.
How often do you take the time to slow
down and get that clear understanding about
whether you are doing the right thing for YOU?
How often do you slow down and focus
on
how to achieve your goals (short-term and life goals)?
Are you taking time to digest all the information
that
is coming in, and make sense of it?
Nigel coaches people like you to freedom – freedom
from limitations, freedom to do/be more, financial
freedom, emotional freedom, freedom to be yourself.
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Kind regards,
nigel
phone:
+386-1-420-1524: +386-31-674-924
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