The Quieter You Become the Better You Execute the Really Great Ideas!
Posted: December 12, 2023
While this may be hard to digest as a truth, think about this. The more you are speaking to other people, watching TV, surfing the internet etc. the more you are getting advice from everyone but yourself. Truth be told, other perspectives are valuable, especially when they are different from your own. Many times, though what happens is we hear something that sounds logical and immediately say, “that makes sense, “I will do that” without taking the time to be quiet and fully thinking through what is best for you and will fit your present situation. When this is done often what is missed is the unintended consequences of a decision we make.
For example, imagine you hear a great idea about a new morning working out routine you can do in your home. You know that you need to lose a few pounds, so you decide that you are going to follow the advice and act. The next morning you wake up start the workout and proceed to wake everyone else in the house up! Aside from that you end up hurting yourself because the workout was too intense for you. The unintended consequences of doing this was you woke up your family and hurt yourself. Was the idea wrong? No, the execution was flawed because you didn’t take the time to embrace the silence and sit with the idea allowing for your thoughts to enter in to make the correct implementation of the idea.
Two things you can do to help prevent this from happening.
- When you hear an idea, write it down. With cell phones taking pictures to remind you or using the notes section you will miss much few great ideas than if you only trust your memory.
- Schedule a consistent silent time space in your day- This will provide you the time to add “your thoughts” for the idea to fit into your life.
Next week we will explore even more benefits of Embracing Silence as well as easy ways to bring it into your life.
Until then treat yourself with as many 5 silent breaks as you can throughout the week.