Having More Breathing Space

What would your life be like if you had more breathing space: www.breathingspace.com/differentials

Visiting All Three Blogs

If you have yet to visit my other two blogs, start August off right by clicking below:

* for the time-pressured: www.BreathingSpaceBlog.com
* for the info-whelmed: www.CommunicationOverload.com

Life a is Desk. Clear Yours!

To prehistoric man, life was a spear. Today life is a desk. Joe Sugarman, in his book, Success Forces, explains that by clearing your desk every evening, you automatically have to choose what to work on the next day. This is a discipline that yields a marvelous sense of breathing space with which to start each day.

To ensure that your desk and office environment supports you, invest in yourself. If you need them, room dividers and sound barriers are available in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and can improve upon any existing sound barriers.

Use the end of the day and slow periods to keep your desk orderly and better prepare yourself for high octane output when you're ready to get started again.

Every evening, after you've cleared your desk, acknowledge yourself for what you accomplished that day. Don't beat yourself up for what you didn't do. If you can do better, you will, maybe not at once, but soon enough.

A Frequent Conference Query

In seminars and workshops I offer on having more Breathing Space, invariably someone poses a personal dilemma: "No matter how conscious I am of saving time throughout the day, I still find myself racing the clock. What, if anything, am I doing wrong?"

My answer, consider that any one-hour activity you undertake in the course of the day, each day, will consume one solid year out of the next 24 years of your life. One hour is to 24 hours as one year is to 24 years. With this realization, consider the cumulative effects of reading junk
mail for only 30 minutes a day or spending 15 minutes a day in line at the bank -- both of which could and should be avoided if you used mail, phone, or email services.

Breathing Space as a Title

The Origins of a Title: People sometimes ask how me I derived the title of this book, "Breathing
Space." One afternoon, while I was speaking on the phone to a mentor, the mentor mentioned that he needed to "get some breathing space." I wrote down those words.

The phrase became one of the powerful guiding forces in my life. From that conversation, I devised the Breathing Space Institute, wrote the book "Breathing Space," and have since given hundreds of lectures for audiences across the nation and around the world on managing the daily pace with grace, mastering information from any communication overload, and, of course, having more breathing space.

US Airways for Your Attendees?

This appeared in today’s news and is either an indication of capitalism run amok or simply the inability of management to contribute to passengers’ sense of breathing space.:

“US Airways to place ads on barf bags”

PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- US Airways wants to make the most out of a nauseating situation. The Tempe, Arizona-based airline plans to sell advertisements on its air-sickness bags -- those pint-sized expandable envelopes tucked between the in-flight magazines and safety cards.

"They're in every back seat pocket," said spokesman Phil Gee. "We figure while it's there, why don't we make it multipurpose?

– what’s next? Toilet paper rolls with ads on each sheet?

Want to Preview Jeff Speaking?

The Carolinas Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants is presenting a program on Monday, May 22 how to manage your growing consulting practice in ways that maximize your personal enjoyment and benefit.

PRWEB -- The May 22nd program will be held at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro. The keynote dinner speaker is Jeff Davidson, founder of the Breathing Space Institute and a noted author and speaker. Mr. Davidson will focus on how you can truly master the information and communication overload you face every day in your practice. You’ll learn simple but powerful techniques to help you better manage information, control your environment, generate energy from your success and gain some real breathing space more often. So you can manage your pace with greater grace.

A Networking Social begins at 5:00pm and a Dinner featuring the keynote speaker at 6:00pm. Fees are $50 for non-IMC Members. For more information, call 704-364-4440