Winning Without Losing: Take Tomorrow Off
Winning Without Losing, the CMI award-winning book as “the best book for New Managers,” explains 66 strategies on how to be successful in business, without neglecting your personal life. Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne interviewed a variety of successful entrepreneurs, and through their search they found that the key to a happy and successful life, is a healthy work life balance.
Every Saturday for 7 weeks, we will be sharing unique strategies that aim to inspire how you can achieve success without sacrifice.
This week, the selected strategy is chosen from Winning Without Losing‘s ‘A New Mindset’ section.
#6: Take Tomorrow Off
You are probably very, very busy. Maybe you are even starting to feel a little overwhelmed, stressed out, or just not enjoying life as much as you would like to. What to do? How can you get off this treadmill of contrived urgency? Take tomorrow off. That’s right. Tomorrow. This may seem impossible to you because you simply have so much to do. Maybe you could take a day off in a few weeks, or in a month, if you really planned for it – but surely not tomorrow.
And that is exactly the point. Taking tomorrow off is an exercise in realising that most things aren’t as pressing as we think and that a little time away from the office isn’t the end of the world. By taking this seemingly impossible leap of faith you will gain a new sense of freedom, perspective and energy that will help both your business and yourself.
So what should you do on this day off? The answer is whatever will give you energy. Go to the beach, play with your kids, watch an entire season of The Sopranos in one go or take a full day’s hike in the wilderness. Take the day to rejuvenate yourself. It may just end up being the most efficient day of your year.
It doesn’t matter if you decide to sit at home and catch up on your favorite show, or go out exploring the wild; use your day off to let your mind wander away from the urgency that may overcome you in your professional life.
The day off will:
Remind you that you are in control of your own life (who knows what revisiting that insight might lead to?);
Boost your creativity; no one gets their best ideas with a full to-do list in their head;
Stimulate you physically, especially if you use the opportunity to try out something new. Have you ever tried wakeboarding, making your own sushi or doing yoga?;
Give you a healthy sense of separation from your business, helping to build stronger self-esteem.
Do that and chances are you will feel enthusiastic, clear-sighted, grounded and reconnected to your vision. Not a bad place to start if you’re looking for efficiency.
So channel the excitement you got when you were a kid and had a holiday. Tomorrow, the day is all yours…
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