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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
--John Lennon
I just got back from a business trip to the East Coast. While I
was away several hundred email messages accumulated, in addition
to a tall stack of postal mail and a full voice mail box. Had I
been here to respond to all of it as it came in, I would have
spent much more time doing so. When faced with the massive
volume, I became much more efficient. I asked myself, "What's
most important?" And my clarity and focus were much sharper as a
result. When I returned from my trip, what I really wanted was
to spend time with my family... not with my email, inbox, or
telephone. With great clarity and intent, I deleted much of my
email without even reading it.
While on my trip I came across a book titled, "The Superman
Syndrome: Why the Information Age Threatens Your Future and What
You Can Do About It," by Robert Kamm. In his book, Kamm notes
that Americans are working an average of six weeks to three
months more per year than they did just a decade ago.
Additionally, more than 70% of people in offices work weekends
and more than 70% of American parents feel they don't spend
enough time with their kids. Kamm says that the Superman
Syndrome is characterized by an inability or unwillingness to
throw the off-switch... whether on a cell phone, the computer,
or in our own brains. We are the most distracted generation in
the history of the human race. And distracted people make for
distracted and unavailable parents -- perhaps one of the biggest
threats our growing generation faces in the 21st Century.
Clients often come to me feeling overwhelmed. They want more
control and balance in their lives. I explain that the control
comes from within. Shedding the Superman cape is the first step!
I tell my clients that they must be willing to bypass the
external distractions and demands on their time, look inside to
their own values and priorities, and then make choices so their
focus and activities match these values and priorities. For
example, if you truly value your health and your family, but you
are working too many hours to take care of yourself or to be
home while your family is still awake, then you've lost control
of your life.
Kamm notes that the commitment to slow down and focus on things
that really matter in life must be made at the corporate as well
as the individual level. He states that "the Superman Syndrome
is a dangerous workplace success formula that forces men and
women to leap tall buildings and outrun speeding bullets -- at
the expense of personal lives, families, children and even
business productivity. This represents a major hypocrisy
implicit in nearly every boardroom in America: The belief that
we should be accountable to work but not to our families."
Yoga, Do Not Knock It Until You Try It
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This begs the question, "What does it matter if you win the rat
race?" You're still a rat!
Change -- even good change -- is stressful for most people. And
today, the speed of change is doubling exponentially every 18
months. The deafening roar of change is the reason that 70% of
illness is due to stress, and the top six leading causes of
death for American adults are stress- related. It is not change
itself -- but our inability to adapt to change -- that creates
the rub for most of us. We are creatures of habit, and old
patterns are hard to change, even when they no longer serve us
well. Health care professionals note that we are so addicted to
our fast-paced lives that it often takes a life-threatening
crisis such as a heart attack or cancer to slow us down. Making
the changes necessary to leave the fast lane behind is not
quick, and for most, it is not easy. That's why practices such
as yoga, meditation, and working with a life coach have become
so popular.
Time to Graduate: Get a Life!
As we approach the time of year to celebrate graduations, I find
it particularly fitting to share excerpts from a commencement
address made by Anna Quindlen. As she began her speech to the
graduating class of Villanova University in Pennsylvania, this
novelist told the audience, "My work is human nature. Real life
is all I know. Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your
work. The second is only part of the first."
Quindlen went on to share some important life lessons that all
of us can benefit from:
"You will walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing
that no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there
with your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing
what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only
person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular
life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your
life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the
life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your
bank account but your soul.
Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next
promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think
you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an
aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love,
and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is
work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. Get a
life in which you are generous. And realize that life is the
best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for
granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to
spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beers and
give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or
sister. All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good
too, then doing well will never be enough. It is so easy to
waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy
to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way the
melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises
again. It is so easy to exist instead of to live.
I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad
happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if
I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. And
what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest
lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the
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that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at
all the good in the world and try to give some of it back
because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to
do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By
telling them this: Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the
fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your
face. Learn to be happy . And think of life as a terminal
illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and
passion as it ought to be lived."
Just Do It!
"Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it,
it's gone." -Rod Steiger
If you struggle to "get a life," here are some concrete action
steps you can take, beginning TODAY!
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==> Action Idea #1: Identify what you love to do.
If you had more time, what would you do? (Or, if you had a
terminal illness, what would you want to do with the time you
had left?) Write down your response.
What is holding you back from doing this now? Do you choose to
wait for a terminal illness to come along before you make time
for what you love most?
Get your calendar out and schedule time to do some of the
things you wrote down.
==> Action Idea #2: Identify your values.
Jot down the names of 10-20 people whom you admire. They do
not need to be living, and you may have never met them or known
them personally.
After you've completed your list, write down the qualities
that you admire in each person you listed. For example, if I
listed Mother Teresa, I might describe these qualities:
compassionate, generous, unconditional love, lived with
meaningful purpose. The qualities that you admire in others are
YOUR values.
How do you honor your values regularly? What is getting in the
way of you honoring your values?
==> Action Idea #3: Identify your priorities and passions.
Pretend that you are attending your 100th birthday party and
your closest friends and relatives have gathered to honor you.
What would you want them to say about you? What would represent
a life well lived with no regrets?
What matters most to you? What are you most passionate about?
Write it down.
What one thing could you do, that if you did regularly, would
make the biggest difference in your personal life? For your
professional life?
Get out your calendar and begin planning to do these things
regularly.
We get what we settle for. It's never too late -- or too early
-- to settle for more. When you are ready to settle for more --
professionally or personally -- contact me.
About the author:
Kathy Paauw, President of Paauwerfully Organized, specializes in
helping busy executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs
declutter their schedules, spaces and minds. She is a certified
business/personal coach and professional organizer. Contact her
at mailto:orgcoach@gte.net or visit her website at
http://www.orgcoach.net and learn how you can Find ANYTHING in 5
Seconds -- Guaranteed!