I’m going to give you a little hint – it is actually not about creating more hours in the day.
I know you feel spread thin, I know you feel hurried, but the way out of it is not working more and it’s not getting more things checked off your to-do list. That habit is only going to break you. It’s gonna burn you out and it’s going to keep you from stepping into the life you want and operating at optimal levels with peace, fulfillment and prosperity.
Today, we’re talking about a process that is going to help you become insanely more efficient without doing more work; to produce with prolificacy without spending more time doing it; to be more fulfilled and more present; less burn out and less hurried.
We are leveraging our energy. We are leveraging our time.
Going from Frustrated to Unstoppable
A little while ago, I was in a season where I felt like we were in such a groove. Business had exploded in the best way, our team was growing and thriving, we were profitable beyond anything we had seen before. Things were going really well, but I was insanely frustrated every day. I was ending every day feeling like I hadn’t closed loops, like I hadn’t actually gotten the things done that I needed to get done, like the big projects that were ultimately going to change the game for our company and for my life were being pushed off.
This frustration was eating away at me until I picked up a book that changed my life – At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof. I took everything I learned from that book and coupled it with the process I started bringing to my team that was also changing the game. And I was unstoppable.
It is all about identifying the four levels of leadership, identifying what falls under each of those levels and then coupling it up with Carey’s brilliant process of leveraging your energy zones.
Leadership Levels
There are four leadership levels:
- Level one. This is the CEO stuff, things that move the business forward, the heartbeat of your business. This is anything that you as a leader do in your business that is do or die. These are also things that propel you closer and further towards the mission and they are for you to do. They’re not things you can just check off a to-do list real quick. These are things that you have to nurture, that require consistent focus. Now, here’s the problem: we assume everything belongs here. Everything is vital to the mission. Everything is critical. If we take away anything, it all falls apart. Well, no. You should only have around three things in this category.
- Level two. These are the things that are very important and require you to show up as a leader. There’s some strategy behind it, but it’s not necessarily absolutely critical to the survival of the mission.
- Level three. These are things that are valuable, but are not critical. They are not necessary to breathe life into the mission, but they do hold some value.
- Level four. These are low priority tasks. This is your to-do list, this is putting out the fires, this is fulfilling other people’s requests. It might feel urgent to you, but it’s not important to your mission.
- Frazzled to Focused Workbook: https://luminaryleadershipco.com/focused
- At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof
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