Episode #81: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What Are You Learning From This?

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Two-minute Tips for Turbulent Times with David Allen
What Are You Learning From This?

In these kinds of times, that’s actually in retrospect when we find out we’ve learned how to grow. We’ve expanded. We’ve stretched ourselves. We’ve challenged ourselves, we’ve had to look at things from whole new perspectives.

So my tip is to shorten that time of reflection and introspection about what these times could mean for us. What we could learn. What you might be doing differently after this in terms of relationships, in terms of your systems, in terms of how you’re approaching your career. Your world. Given what we’ve been dealing with.

I’m not saying they’re easy answers to that. But again, you won’t find answers until you ask the questions. So my tip is, as I have to challenge myself regularly, What am I learning now, given what I’m dealing with? What can I do differently? What will this bring to the plate? In terms of how I could approach my world differently and what I might be able to do more successfully, or more elegantly, more easily, given what I’ve learned.

Learning happens in challenging times, not when times are easy. So I highly recommend you take advantage as best you can. Understand this is not the easiest thing to do, when things are stressful and things are on you and you’re so distracted by a lot of what you may be dealing with. But it’s also a good time to sit back, reflect, meditate, relax. Reflect and think. What could I be learning now? Reflect and think. What could I be learning now? What could I be doing differently now? And start to build that into your life and your work.

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