
The art of cleaning up your mess allows you to cultivate a crystal clear mind that is able to be deployed on much more important goals in life. The mess in your physical world is a dark cloud that sits inside your head whenever you want to do your life’s work and holds you back.
As is commonly said, people join companies and leave managers. Good employees, especially those who show promise for future leadership, quit jobs when they feel micromanaged. Even without falling into the trap of micromanagement, managers can leave people feeling disconnected, uncared for, and unimportant by allowing distractions to enter an interaction. Over time, these impressions stick and create disengaged teammates. Process and procedure are never as important to business as people.
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”