Get Tied Up
BNET Australia Contributors
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BNET Australia Contributors
Brian Haverty is editorial director for CBS Interactive Australia and is responsible for the company's BNET and ZDNet Australia sites.
Robert Gerrish is a coach, author and professional speaker and the founder of Flying Solo, an Australian online community for solo business owners.
Melissa Lourenco is the HR manager for CBS Interactive in Australia.
Chris Golis is the author of The Humm Handbook: Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence. He runs seminars and workshops on EQ.
Suzi Dafnis is Community Director of the Australian Businesswomen's Network.
Yvonne Adele helps organisations build a culture of ideas by teaching people at all levels to access their untapped creative thinking skills.
Clutter can be, and often is, made up of seemingly small items, yet collectively those items destroy our focus and reduce our energy.
Key offenders can often be linked to incomplete projects (like tax returns!) or unfinished business (closure on a business or personal relationship, perhaps).
Similarly, clutter can come from the gnawing frustration caused by a build-up of unattended emails, paperwork that remains unfiled, bills unpaid … the list goes on.
One thing is for sure — unless we attend to the main offender(s) we’re never going to move forwards with the kind of gusto, focus, and drive that we’d like.
I’d like to suggest a little trick that I was reminded of recently — a trick that is as effective as it is simple. Here’s how it works:
First, get really clear on what key element of clutter needs attention.
Second, get a friend or colleague to tie a small brightly coloured strip of ribbon around your wrist — tight enough to not come off without scissors; loose enough to maintain blood flow!
Third, make a commitment to that friend or colleague to not remove the ribbon until you have completed (and removed) the offending clutter.
Try it. It really works.
