DeepThinking - 30 Minutes To Change Your Life

About a year ago I started to feel uneasy about my position as CEO of BodyChance. I wasn't doing enough. At least, that's what my mind told me. But the facts gave another story: In that year, BodyChance as a company had grown 31%. Our profit line remained flat, but that was because I continued to invest by improving our service and increasing our attraction to new comers. I wasn't failing - so why did I feel this disease? I wasn't used to it. In building BodyChance, I had worked long hours. I had done every job in the company - from paying the wages to cleaning the studio. Now other people do all that. Other people even teach - the school no longer depends on me. It felt like I was without a job. What do I do now? Think. Plan. Write. All things I love doing. I began to coach others - my staff, teachers, my trainees. It's like a dream come true. Every morning, I spend time in deep thought - hence my DeepThinking series - and out of this period, my most productive time-saving decisions arrive. It's incredible. How are you using your time? Here's the 30 minute exercise: list the most useful things you do - aside from teaching - that lead towards building your practise. Now analyse how much time you spend doing that? If necessary, list down all the things you do that don't build your practise. How much time you spend doing things that do not relate to that? Your teaching practise is your biz - it is a primary source of energy. It can give you the income you need to delegate the things that are least productive for you: those are better done by somebody who is delighted to have the opportunity. It's a slow transformational ride, but it doesn't start until you start. You may not be able to change much to begin with, but it's about undoing, not doing. It's about dealing with strange feelings by behaving in unknown ways. I promise that 30 minutes spent reflecting this way will produce an insight that has the potential to change the way you do things. Forever.