Ben's Tip of the Day

Ignore It, It’ll Go away!

Often in business it is the simple things that make the biggest difference…like life I guess. So as a quick hint or tip this issue have a go at the following:

To prevent you feeling under pressure…and I want to clarify this…pressure is always an internal representation. It is what we perceive we must be feeling usually when we focus negatively upon a list of to do’s that still need doing! So recognising that it is always an internal issue – therefore one that we control, here’s my idea…

When you see a pile of paper on your desk and tell yourself that it represents more work that you haven’t got around to and thus your are lagging behind and under pressure to do more…when you get that feeling pick up the offending pile of papers and as a whole put them out of site and into a draw or a box!

Now I appreciate this will feel weird and you’ll resist the urge to move them and you’ll internalised and feel fear that if it doesn’t get done the world will cave in!! but honestly the truth is you’ll look then at a clean desk everyday and tell yourself that it is all alright with the world and that you arte coping…and then after a week of looking at a clean sheet and reducing that nagging feeling you should realise that what was bugging you – by not being done didn’t cause a catastrophe…the world didn’t end and therefore the thing or pile of things that you allowed to create pressure for you was not actually worthy of the pressure power you gave to it. It didn’t matter that much!!

Try this please…it isn’t a permanent solution to your time challenge or a total answer to problem pressure…you cannot keep ignoring things we must address the cause...but often the cause of pressure is accepting tasks that either should be left to other people or don’t really have that much critical relevance and therefore shouldn’t have been accepted in the first place! For now though, take away the mental reminder and have a great few weeks without pressure!!