Elite performance is linked to the ability to rest and recharge. This episode shares how personal visioning, reflection and preparation allows the mind and heart to be renewed with confidence for your future.
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Jason introduces Season 7 episode 31 of the podcast, Rest: Preparation Breeds Confidence. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.
We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with.
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“Preparation breeds confidence coming out of our time off… Allowing time for visioning and reflection helps breed confidence for the road ahead.”
4:48 – People often ask Jason, “give me some strategies for how to spend time off, how do I spend some time to rest, recover, and recharge from work?” It sounds paradoxical to think about work while not working but the truth is that as busy successful people this is what resonates with most of our audience and Jason’s clients. It really is a great question, how do we maximize this time and how do we best carve out this time? Why would we want to carve out this time? Jason covers this very well in the last episodes of a multi-part series on REST; listen to the past episodes if you have not as they help shed light on this topic and its importance to recover and perform our work even better when we recharge.
6:50 – These episodes are designed to be shorter so that we can easily digest the important lessons within. When Jason wrote his second book, ReMember, he cited a study from the Harvard business review that stated that people switch tasks between 300-500 times per day. People buy into the busyness myth; they equate busyness with effectiveness. It leads to only a 30% productivity rate. The study proved that people taking time to rest and recover were the most successful and productive later at their jobs and tasks. The most effective people took time to slow down to speed up thus being more effective with tasks. In Jason’s latest book Breathing Oxygen, he talks about the power of rest and elite performance very well, I highly recommend checking it out. How we rest, how we recharge is as important as the hard work we have to put in. Elite performance is NOT about never coming up for air but about learning how to breathe more efficiently. Resting is as important as the hard work we need to put in. Americans alone leave 768 million days of vacation days unused each year; we aren’t great about taking time off.
12:00 – Today we are focusing on the idea that preparation breeds confidence. Jason leaves time to do some visioning and what does he want the future to look like. This often leads envision the future that he wants to create which is a very positive and important mental practice. Most people just want to “turn off” their brain during vacation and Jason understands this but on longer or intention time away it has been very valuable for Jason to reflect on what he wants to create for the future. This can be not only for work but for life, relationships, being a father, or goals for his work-life. Stepping back and accessing is very important as noted in the six A’s Jason talked about before.
For example, with intentional time off, here are some ways that Jason allows himself to prepare for the future:
- Jason breaks it down to what a normal day, month, and year should look like. – How to allocate his time, attention, and money moving forward.
- Jason reconnects on who and what Jason serves in his work life – Who are the clients he is currently serving, and where does he see their needs? What might be most helpful to them? His interactions are meant to be not transactional but transformational.
- Jason accesses his life and work from this lens. – What will need his eyes and attention when he is back? How can he block time so that he can better prepare when he gets back?
Questions to Ponder
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What is your vision for your life and work in the next year?
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What might you be allowing to linger that might get in the way of that vision?
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What new habits or approaches would you like to teach differently to move in the direction of that vision for your life and your work moving forward?
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ABOUT THE THERMOSTAT
Conversations and micro-thoughts to engage your mind and heart.
A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.