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During her year of "yes," Shonda Rhimes learned how a rightly timed moment of "no" created space to say "yes" to something that in turn sparked a brilliant change within her. Listen below. The lesson of the story is to say "yes" to the right things. To do so, we must also say "no" at the right time to the right things. Time cannot be bargained, bought, created, or controlled. We must accept real limitations to create space for the right things. What is one thing you can say "no" to today? Write it down and say no before your head hits the pillow. This does not mean deprioritize or delay, say no and take it off your list. Period. It does not need to be an obligation, it can be a want that is holding you back. Comment DONE or ✅ below when you have taken it off your list. #professionaldevelopment #hustle #sayyes #busy #productivity #business #leadership #smallbusinessleader #businesscoaching #burnout

We are gearing up for our next OE cohort. We hope you will visit Opulent Elevation now to register for our free January 2025 bookclub and join us as we walk through Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport, a New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and IndieBound bestseller. This January cohort is completely free, don't let this opportunity pass you by! Register today! #productivity #businesscoaching #professionaldevelopment #selfdevelopment #leadership #intentionaldecisions #slowproductivity #coaching #burnout #hustleculture #hustle #bookclub https://lnkd.in/emXRtK2h

Do you take 60 seconds at the end of the day or start of each day to triage your task list? Did you know the word "triage" originates from the French word trier? Trier is translated in English as "to sort," Cambridge Dictionary online. If you have ever gone to your local emergency room or watched any television drama with an emergency room, you have heard the term "triage." Healthcare workers use the practice of "triage" to categorize patients into priority based on severity and urgency of care. According to the National Library of Medicine, it originated in a time of war, used to quickly assess soldiers during battle. The modern day triage in emergency rooms are designed to take no more than 60 seconds. Have you triaged your task list for Monday? #productivity #output #businesscoaching #kpi #quality #leadership #qualityperformance #intentionaldecisions *Photo by: Kaboompics.com

Book recommendation alert! We are a big fan of the book Pick Three by Randi Zuckerberg. You can do anything, just not everything all at once. Pick Three proposes to pick your top three each day and focus on those. Everything else can wait. Don't worry, you can pick a different three the next day! Drop a comment - what are your three today? #pickthree #productivity #output #businesscoaching #kpi #quality #leadership #qualityperformance #intentionaldecisions

What hard choices do you struggle with? Are they in your control? Drop a comment and let us know.

Are you wearing aimless “busyness” as a medal or are you using discernment to ensure you are using your time to do the most valuable things? Check out this talk by Dorie Clark.

Existential Overwhelm: The modern era problem of having an inexhaustible supply of things that seem worth doing thus creating an inevitable and unbridgeable gap between the ideal of what you’d like to do and what can actually get done. What is one thing on your “to-do” list today that can be eliminated entirely, delayed to a later date, delegated to someone else, or automated? Term and definition (paraphrased) from “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” by Oliver Burkeman Photo by Thirdman #productivity #output #businesscoaching #kpi #quality #leadership #qualityperformance #intentionaldecisions

“Tough choices are inevitable…” “Our troubled relationship with time arises largely from the same effort to avoid the painful constraints of reality. And most of our strategies for becoming more productive make things worse, because they’re really just ways of furthering the avoidance. After all, it’s painful to confront how limited your time is, because it means that tough choices are inevitable and that you won’t have time for all that you want stream you might do.” If you live to 80 years old you will have 4,000 weeks on this Earth. Do you feel like your “days are spent trying to ‘get through’ tasks, in order to get them ‘out of the way,’“ resulting in the feeling that you are “living mentally in the future, waiting for when (you will) finally get around to what really matters—and worrying, in the meantime, that (you) don’t measure up, that (you) might lack the drive or stamina to keep pace with the speed at which life now seems to move?” Are you determined not to live counting down the hours by check marks on a todo list? Instead challenge yourself to make intentional choices, say “yes” to commitments and responsibilities with purpose. Intentional work and living derives from the understanding that time cannot be bargained, bought, created, or controlled. You may only make intentional choices within the constraints of what exists. Comment “YES” if you can relate and follow along for more. Quotes from “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” by Oliver Burkeman Photo by Jeshoots #productivity #output #businesscoaching #kpi #quality #leadership #qualityperformance #intentionaldecisions

Quantity or quality? Are your organizations shifting from measuring and teaching skills for labor, material, and capital to encouraging, coaching, and measuring knowledge creation in what some refer to as the Knowledge Era? The Information Age began the incorporation of technology, and now AI, into our work and personal lives. This incorporation is progressing exponentially, taking over a large part of labor, or at least significantly cutting down the time it takes to complete tasks or labor efforts in a large sector of our workforce. As our lives and our businesses continue to shift, how are you preparing to cut through the abundance of noise to the vital for maximum impact and satisfaction? #productivity #output #businesscoaching #knowledgeera #informationage #kpi #quality #leadership #qualityperformance #intentionaldecisions #laborday

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates Stop filling your calendar with unintentional "yeses." There are so many intentional reasons to say yes or to fill your calendar, including but not limited to: This will move me closer to my goal. This will help someone. This will move my organization towards success. This will make someone else happy. I have time and I want to try something new. Just avoid the automatic "yes" without discernment.