As the fall season approaches, many of us start to realize that we have only a few short months left to accomplish our remaining Meaningful Objectives. If we've completed strategic next actions throughout the year to drive our objectives and if we've discussed course-correcting during routine accountability meetings, then our year-end journey becomes nothing more than steering a steady ship into dock.

Keeping a lot of information in your head can not only affect your ability to focus and to stay present, but it can also impact your ability to manage your commitments. It is nearly impossible to prioritize tasks when you’re organizing them in your head. Furthermore, you cannot complete a commitment that you cannot remember, and for some of us, the mind is not a reliable reminder system.

The purpose of the Clearing the Mind Exercise is to empty your mind of all the to-do’s you’ve been harboring in your head.

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Recent blog posts

 Examining Accountability and How We Get in Our Own Way  
by: John Wittry, McGhee Partner & Executive Consultant 

Being accountable to what I said I would do gives me a feeling of satisfaction, accomplishment, and contributes to my sense of well-being. Not being accountable to what I said I would do gives me a feeling of disappointment, frustration, and eventually anger for having not achieved the goal. Think of a time when you set a goal for yourself, stayed accountable, and achieved it. The sense of accomplishment lifts you up, doesn’t it? It also gives you the confidence to achieve more goals. Now, think of a time when you set a goal, did not stay accountable, and failed to reach the goal. It probably set up a negative spiral of events. 

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 Advice for Administrators – Getting to "Yes" by Saying "No"  
by: Jennifer Wilmoth, McGhee Consultant 

A common concern around managing interruptions surfaced during a recent one-on-one Personal Information Management (PIM) session with an executive administrator when she said with resignation, “But I cannot not say yes.” Her concern was if she said “no” she wouldn’t be supporting those around her and it would seem as though she “wasn’t being a team player.” Based on my expertise, working with all levels of administrators, and also from previously being an executive administrator to our CEO, Sally McGhee, I believe that in actuality the opposite is true: It’s when we stop trying to get it all done and complete the most important things first, we truly contribute to the team.

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