Focus Confidence Momentum

I’ve been thinking about strategies for a new client who is a new father. While the main thrust of our work is new business development my client is going to have to juggle differently now. I’m going to talk to him about anchors in his schedule to help him overcome multiple priorities.

Dinner with the family is an obvious anchor that provides work life quality. There’s lots of research to say that a meal together everyday is an important family building block.

Two things can happen with a scheduled dinner. It can go ahead as planned or it can be missed because some urgency comes up. There are all types of urgencies at various levels of importance that can and do get in the way.

The key to achieving work life quality is to have every dinner when no urgency arises. People have a tendency to come up with an excuse when a planned activity is difficult [going to the gym to workout, for example] or can easily be put off until another time [another relationship solidifying dinner, for example].

So while it is easy to specify the anchors it’s a little harder to take part in all of them even when no emergency gets in the way. Watch out for a tendency to say “I can miss this one.” That’s a tendency that can become repetitive.