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7-Step Blueprint to a Weekly Think Time Session Guaranteed to Solve Big Constraints for Busy Leaders
If you’re not thinking, you’re reacting.
Often, the excuse is, I’m too busy. “I can’t add more time to my schedule to just sit back in my chair, and think. Are you nuts? I have shit to do.” Sound familiar? I’ve been there too!
But let me offer another perspective.
Just because you’re busy doesn’t mean you’re busy working on the right things. Being busy is neither good nor bad. What matters is if you’re focused on the few things that matter the most, and thinking about those things takes a dedicated time commitment (not when you’re falling asleep in bed).
Kim Scott wrote in Radical Candor,
“An enormously successful newspaper executive recounted walking into his CEO’s office and seeing him leaning back in his chair just staring out at the sky. When he asked the CEO what he was daydreaming about, it turned out to be the idea that pivoted the company for the next decade.”
You are no different. You need to schedule a weekly think time session; here’s how.
