One of the most challenging things about being a leader is managing your time, energy and focus.
How do you self manage a 60 hours a week with the desire to be a great spouse and parent, community member, and fishing buddy? How can you pay attention to your total life when you are pulled in a thousand different directions already? Where, if anywhere, does your values, faith and personal mission fit in?
How can you stop being a victim of your own life choices, and begin to be the CLO (Chief Life Officer) of your life? Lead yourself first or someone else will!
We all wrestle with these challenges every day and there are no easy answers. However, when you view you life as having a Chief Life Officer (You) it helps you see the possibilities of a strategy that has three way wins. (Your Life (personal well-being and quality, Your Work- career and contribution/legacy, and Your Family- parent, spouse, positive contributor)
Taking care of all three simultaneously has great strategic advantage to the success of You, Inc. headed by the CLO Chief Life Officer. In order to do this, it is important to develop a practical approach that works in my everyday life.
Here are a couple of things to do in order to move into the role of CLO of You, Inc.
Think of your life as an organization with limits on time, energy and resources.
How do you best leverage your time, available resources, and energy for your work, life and family?
Take stock of what you value most, how satisfied you are and how you are actually doing in eight key areas within You, Inc.
Body (health and well being), Mind (emotional Intelligence. resilience and change adaptability), Values/Spirit (faith, ethics, authenticity/Integrity). These three areas are your top leadership team members. The quality of this trio impacts your life, work and family profits!
Next, leading the matrix–Family, Learning, Social, Career, and Financial divisions of You, Inc. These five departments/functions of You, Inc.–require leadership, strategy and daily self management in order to leverage their strengths for You, Inc’s success. Poor strategy, leadership, resource allocation will lead to poor performance and reduced profits.
Remember who you really report to!
