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A decade back, when I was working on a huge enterprise program (with multiple projects) along with a big team (of close to 300 people), we were a group of managers who were evaluated and pushed by the senior management to “proactively” deal with issues and to work on finding new solutions. I used to think of how - we can become “proactive”, when we were already focusing our efforts on fighting our daily “fires” or urgencies of our project work. When I delved deeper into our daily work habits, it struck me that till the time we are not excited about “getting things done”, the willingness to explore more out of our comfort zone just doesn’t happen. The innate human behaviour is to follow a routine and establish a comfort zone over a period. The 1st factor – “an external stimulus” can upset us and force us to think or act out of our comfort zone.  The 2nd factor that can make us “move” out of our comfort zones is about having an excitement of a future or coming up with a vision th

In the last 8-10 years, I must have spent innumerable hours on the internet trying to figure out the cause of procrastination and lost productivity for my own tasks simply due to binging on social media and YouTube. I read many blogs, posts, videos by various celebrities, influencers on this and today, I do have a revelation to make specifically on the “ability to focus” . With greater access to huge amounts of information and specifically the well-made marketing videos that very easily draw our attention on the internet, I have found that our current generation is losing our abilities to “stay focused” for a longer duration of time. Let me elaborate this a bit with the levels of impact on the way we do things and the ways in which we expect things to happen: Different Expectations: Our expectations have changed with people we get in touch with, to give us immediate information or in a very short span of time. Less Patience: Our ability to “wait” (and / or being “patient”) with