Choose to deal
Assuming for the moment that your job is not entirely about steady-state delivery of the status quo, that you involve yourself if making things better, in…
We all put off the important-difficult non-urgent stuff in favour of the easy and the urgent. The easy is … easy, so it’s like taking a break. The urgent is … demanded, so there’s really no choice. That’s not to say they’re not important, but there’s little choice involved.
By the end of the week, the month, the quarter, without making many prioritisation calls, the easy and the urgent accomplishments stack tall and straight.
Which leaves the important-difficult stuff, knotty and twisted, sagging away in the corner. Going nowhere, sucking energy, irritating, and stopping you getting on with everything that cascades from whatever makes the important-difficult important and difficult in the first place.
Leading is choosing.
Choosing to enter the discomfort.
To focus on what’s important.
To deal with the difficult.
It’s about picking up cans that other non-leaders kick down the road.
Skippy strategy: Leaders choose to deal with the important-difficult stuff.
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