High Performance Leadership

Are you easily distracted? I've known some people who are so blessed with brief attention spans that they are easily distracted. They'll start one thing and then move onto another before they've finished what they're working on. Many people are fine with that. It drives me crazy. It's easy to get distracted. And, it's easy to see what looks like a short cut and grab for it just to make it possible to move onto something else and just to put to rest the stress of it sitting unfinished. Sometimes that works, but sometimes it is something to be extremely careful about. What looks like the shortest path to success can turn out to be a sizable detour. Bunny trails, distractions, detours - whatever you want to call them, simply pull us away from our goals. They delay success. They get in our way. An occasional detour is fine - but I do my best to avoid getting seduced by the simplicity of a false answer. If the goal is challenging, there probably aren't ...

Do you ever get lost? Some days it feels like I could get lost in the shower. Before the days of navigational devices I spent a lot of road time simply finding my way and getting back on the path to where I was going. Some of that was do to vision problems that have been corrected, but some of it was also failing to skillfully navigate the detours. Things will throw us off track. Things will alter our path. We'll take trails we hadn't counted on and be asked/required to use routes that are new and strange. Keep moving. Even the fastest path to where you're going might contain a detour or two. When we learn to navigate the detours, the view is much more enjoyable. Think about a detour that you didn't expect to take. What did you learn from it? Have you ever had a detour that turned out to be the best possible road for you to take? Navigate the detours - and enjoy the view. -- Doug Smith Front Range Leadership:  High Performance Leadership Training doug ...