{"id":5430,"date":"2014-06-27T14:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T06:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2017-01-08T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T12:14:25","slug":"busy-with-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/busy-with-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy? With What?"},"content":{"rendered":"
A daughter ran away from home and went to live with her boyfriend. After a few days, she called home. Her mother answered and she announced, “Mom, we’re engaged!” Her jaded mother replied, “In what?”<\/span><\/p>\n That would be our response as well if someone announces that they’re busy at work or business. Busy-ness is normal. What is NOT normal is “What are you busy about?” Are you doing what you’re supposed to be doing or are you doing things for the sake of doing things? What are your priorities? Are your priorities in order? Let’s see what a few of them might be.<\/span><\/p>\n Is a full third of your schedule scheduled for “Nothing Time”? “Nothing time” for reading, watching videos, listening to podcasts, walking along the beach and calling on a contact or two just to talk about dreams and possibilities? Catching a flight to a nearby island for lunch? Yes, I do mean during so-called “business hours”. If you don’t have that, time to do something about it. Make sure your people have it, too!<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, you already have people doing this for you. Would you be interested in browsing, getting a sense of what others are doing, what the people you serve really want? Are you making the effort to meet people more successful than you are? Do you network with your main goal being to meet and develop long-term relationships with people from all walks of life, not just with those whom you think will give you some advantage? Do you sample your own products and services just to see whether they are really as good as everyone in your company seems to think? Take a break. Go shopping!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>1. \u00a0 \u00a0 Nothing time.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
2. \u00a0 \u00a0 Shopping time.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
3. \u00a0 \u00a0 “Volunteer” time.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n