Prevent the worst, reactive days as a CEO/CXO/Leader

The worst days start reactively

In bed until the last minute.
Grab your phone.
Check social.
Check emails.
Check slack.
Start reacting.
Trying to regain the advantage.
Get ahead.
It never quite works.
You don’t quite get to do what you hoped.
You are overrun by correspondence.
By requests for your time.
By meetings that run on.
That don’t quite achieve their objective.
The whole day somehow entirely chased and reactive.

All because of how it started.

The best days start proactively.

1. With something like meditation, perhaps formal meditation, or thinking or just peace. It’s preparing your internal state for presence. The assurance that you are right where you are supposed to be.

2. A reminder of who you said you’d be. A reminder of your values. A note that tells you how you’ll operate and how you won’t. Maybe that’s patience, calm, curious, engaged, enthusiastic and a reminder to not blame, point fingers, react, and an operating procedure to help you keep to it.

3. Sweat. - where the body goes the mind follows. When the body feels strong, stable, supple, energised and connected the mind feels the same. A short bout of daily morning exercise aligns body and mind.

4. Prepare - how will you achieve what’s important, stop the day begin reactive, win the day?

We all know that proper preparation prevents poor performance.

My clients turned preparedness into a ritual.

How do you prepare?