If your business life seems to be a constant round of fire-fighting, getting calm, fire-fighting, getting calm… and round and round you go (perhaps you don’t even have the calm moments!) then there are a couple of things you need to do to get you off that merry-go-round.
You just need five minutes a day.
The key is to take actions to prevent the fires happening in the first place.
Also look for signs of trouble.
All of these actions can give you a significant shift away from fire fighting and towards calm.
However, there will be barriers that impede your progress – and I will take a look at those next week.