10 TIPS ON HOW TO HAVE A ZEN LIKE FOCUS

1. LIVE LIFE AS IF YOU HAD 24 HOURS TO LIVE
   What would you do this day if it was your last?
   
   
2. WAKE UP
   What’s no longer working in your life and organisation?
   
   
3. PICK ONE THING
   What one thing if you did it today would make the biggest difference to your life and business?
   
   
4. FIRE UP YOUR PASSION
   Zen like focus is carried on the wings and breath of passion.
   
   
5. LIVE IT, BREATHE IT, COMPLETE IT
   When you live it and breathe the task or service you are doing, you will complete it.
   
   
6. BE IT NOW
   What does your company want to be when it grows up?  Focus on it now.
   
   
7. QUIT NOW
   What products or services no longer work?  Quit them today.
   
   
8. BE UNREASONABLE
   Make a decision now and write down what you will have a Zen like focus on within the next twelve months.
   
   
9. LISTEN AND ACT
   Listen to your customers.  Listen to your staff.  Then apply Zen like focus.
   
   
10. JOIN THE 3% CLUB
    Everything that is easy to do is just as easy not to do and that is why most people won’t be consistent and have Zen like focus.

10 TIPS ON HOW LEADERS USE TIME MORE EFFECTIVELY

1. GET UP EARLY
   Early morning stillness has secrets to tell you...
   
   
2. LEARN WHILE THE WORLD SLEEPS 
   Be ahead, read, research, write, learn for a minimum of 30 minutes early morning.
   
   
3. BE AHEAD
   Always do your ‘To Do’ List the evening before.
   
   
4. DIFFICULT TASKS FIRST
   Embrace that project that you have being putting off first.
   
   
5. AVOID EMAILS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
   Never get caught up in your emails first thing once in the office.  They will steal your time away.
   
   
6. ACTION TOP THREE THINGS
   Take action on your top three things first every day.
   
   
7. TIME BLOCK CALLS / EMAILS, ETC
   Batch tasks together.
   
   
8. SWITCH OFF NOISE
   Turn off the email notification and text sounds – it’s another distraction.
   
   
9. SUNDAY NIGHT DREAMING
   Build 20 minutes on a Sunday evening to dream, plan, action the week ahead.
   
   
10. LIGHTEN UP
    Do your best work in the moment.  Ask yourself what’s the most important task I need to achieve in this moment?