What does your best work look like?

‘Eruption’ by Philip Dodson

I attended a great workshop a few years back, facilitated by Judy Rees, and one of the exercises was if you had to visually illustrate what your best work looked like, what would you create? What would you draw?

what would you draw, paint, make or write to demonstrate you at your best?

Do we even stop to look at what factors combine to create our best work, when we are in complete flow, when we are ‘on fire’?

The more we work in a focused, deeper way, the less the shallow distractions occur and the better we can work.

The challenge for us all is that is personal. What creates the environment for deep work for me will be different to you.

However, we all have an environment and mindset that will come together to enable us to do deep focused and meaningful work.

Take a moment to work out where that is for you and then see how you can apply it.

Batching

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When you are working at your best, when you’re in ‘flow’, then keep going.

If you have just written a blog and it came with real inspiration, then write another and another.

If you’re in the swing and recording a podcast, do another.

If you just made a call and it got the desired outcome, make another.

This way you get ahead when you’re ‘on fire’ and then when you’re not at your best you’re either ahead and it won’t matter or you have a blog up your sleeve or episode done of your podcast.

Work when you’re at your best and when you’re struggling sometimes, then go do something else as you’re ahead.

Batch at your best and stay ahead.