How to Achieve Your Most Important Career Goals in a Fraction of the Usual Time

These themes can be nurtured, for instance, through daily rituals. These are processes in which we feed the “right wolves” and “turn on all systems” to ensure alignment with our theme and the right level of performance through the day.

Cultivating a Theme: Try It Yourself!

As a practical example: Many of us wish to cultivate a “productivity” theme, so that we can grow a “proactive” mindset and inject more effectiveness and better execution into our everyday lives.

How can we do that?

There is plenty of literature out there on how morning routines can help us start the day with a can-do and productive attitude, the same way that a top athlete tunes up body and mind in the hours before a competition to perform at his best once the race starts.

Wake up a bit earlier in the morning. Build it progressively and in very small increments over time until you give yourself a 60–90 minute window to feed your brain and soul before opening your email and getting dragged into your day:

• Feed your attention: journaling in the morning is a great way to focus your attention, as it triggers the Reticular Activating System in your brain and prompts you into action. You may try the Morning Pages technique, by Julia Cameron. I actually nurtured my interest in coaching and personal development writing to myself about it in my morning pages, over a…