Do you ever feel like you’re running 100 miles per hour, in no particular direction?

Life moves fast.  How do we keep our focus in the middle of all the chaos?

My advice?  … throw all the books away…throw away all the mumbo jumbo hype and do a 1% meeting with yourself.

What’s a 1% meeting, you ask?

This idea comes from leadership expert, Boyd Matheson.

A 1% meeting is you spending 1% of every day in a meeting with yourself…. by yourself… no computers, no cell phones, nothing.  That 1% equates to about 14.4 minutes.  Let’s round up and call it 15 minutes.

Take 15 minutes to just sit and envision what you’re trying to do with your business.  I am a HUGE fan of the KISS method.  You’ve got to Keep It Simple!  People are always looking for a magic bullet.  There are no magic bullets.

So spend 15 minutes asking yourself what it is that you truly want.  What are you passionate about?  What are your strengths?  What are your weaknesses?  Really take the time to think about the answers to these questions.  They’re not always obvious.

Strengths are things that energize you…that make you tick. Weaknesses, on the other hand, are not necessarily the things that you’re bad at, but the things that just completely drain you.  Think in terms of that… more on this later.

Then, of course, you want to plan your business activities around your strengths.

Write it down.  Journaling is very important.  I, myself am not always good at taking the time to write, but it’s SO important.  Don’t underestimate what a clean piece of paper and 5 to 10 bullet points (keep it simple) will do for your business or career.

Remember, this 1% meeting needs to happen DAILY.  It’s only 15 minutes a day!  If you can’t give yourself just 1% of your time, I guarantee you won’t be able to give 100% to anything else.