Focus on the Key Tasks – Personal

After a long conversation in the station bar at Stonehaven, between an old colleague Andy Byers and myself we spent some time discussing the effect of losing sight of your key objectives has on your life both in and outside of work. How many of us define our own focus that clearly we can actually make a decision on wither we should say “no” to a situation.

Everyone can think back to a situation ware we have said “Yes” that deep down we know really adds no value but we fear will eat in to our time as this one task become so much more. At this point we quickly finder yourself spending twice as long truing to move forward with the task that are really important.

Why?

Because we have made a commitment to achieve something that is not key to achieving the objectives we have set for either yourself or have been set by the role we find our self in. It’s at this point that we need to take stock and focus on the extracting our self from these time consuming tasks.

This may sound selfish but the more unfocused you are the less effective you are in achieving your goal wither that is to increase sales by 20% or to complete the current milestone. Are you really doing yourself or the others in the team/employer a favour by doing this?

In most cases no as the fact you’re possibly not doing anything that progressively moves the situation forward (or that would be your goal) is really taking the focus and putting the original goal at risk. But this is not to mean that you don’t regularly review what your focus should be as it is just as bad to not notice that the goals have changed.

During the conversation we settled on the fact that it is important to:

• Say No when the fit is not their
• If you say yes (in some cases it may be the right thing) make sure you have your relationship and the responsibility you are undertaking securely defined.
• Check your goals against the current environment and your responsibilities daily.

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