Maybe what you need IS an interruption?
- There’s that phone call that you don’t want to take
- There’s that meeting you don’t want to attend
- There’s that family matter that pulls you away
- There’s that need to check your Facebook page, Twitter Stream or other Social Media website
- There’s that friend who wants you to blow off work tomorrow and go to the beach
Let’s face it, there’s always that interruption of some sort that seems to keep you from getting your work done.
But what if that interruption led you to laugh at something that really isn’t a challenge but an opportunity to solve a problem? What if that meeting led you to think about new possibilities? What if that family matter made you realize and set priorities; to become more efficient? What if something on those social media pages led to a collaboration? What if the day at the beach led to you finding new work or doing some social good or to a new product or service?
Two years ago a day at the beach led me to finding the nonprofit One Less Meal, Inc. (http://onelessmeal.org); The World’s Only Virtual Diner Fighting Hunger – where you don’t eat a meal but rather donate one. What if keeping your head buried in your keyboard or glued to your smartphone is actually the thing that is keeping you from being great and/or making a difference?
What if you looked at today’s interruptions as something else………what I like to call INSPIRruptions!
