Doing less requires you to prioritize, to strategize. It’s rarely about “time management”. But most of us are so busy in our day to day lives, in our careers, in our jobs, that we just don't have the time to look at things strategically because we are trying to “manage time better”. Stop and ask yourself- What is the direction of travel? Where are we going? Where are we headed to? If you don't know that, you just keep on adding to the pandemic of busy-ness. And it is indeed a pandemic. And it's almost worn as this badge of honour. And I'm going to say enough, that's enough! Please stop and just see what is happening to you. Because of you being busy 24/7. Busy-ness, unfortunately, doesn't solve anything. In fact, it does the opposite of solving for things. Back in the day, when I was in my first job at Deloitte, there were a couple of projects where we were working crazy hours. And this will not come as a surprise to most consultants, you are used to working crazy hours. But I will have to say that because of those crazy hours, we lost not only our creativity but also our sense of logic sometimes, which I only figured out towards the end of the project when I started having more and more space and time. And it wasn't just me, this was for everyone. And this is true every single day of our lives- the more space you have to think the more space you have to be silent, quieten down your mind, the more successful you will be in your career. Because you have that time now to strategize. Now you suddenly have that time to indeed own your career, like a CEO, like I always talk about.
