Simplify to Multiply

Have you ever tried to scale up or grow your personal or business life?

You take on more responsibility, more accountability, you go to more meetings, more dinners, more social events and all feels fantastic until you become overwhelmed.

You feel the stress rising in your relationships, your productivity and the quality of your output starts to decrease until eventually you burn out or you go back to the expectation you originally had, or potentially you implement strategies and procedures to allow your growth to continue, albeit at a very low trajectory. The reason that I'm talking about simplifying in order to multiply is based on that workplace idea.

If you go to the workplace, you haven't got your strategy in place to achieve and to grow, you're not going to do it and you're going to burn out. It's the same at home, if you don't put the groundwork in to create an environment that you deserve and that will help you grow forward and increase your inspiration, your clarity, and your efficiency, how can you expect your social life as well as your work life to enhance over time.

A really good example of this, really through project management speak, is, if you had a building to construct and you ordered all the steel work to arrive on one day and on the same day, you have all of your people power arrive, theoretically, and on paper you are progressing.

You're able to put everything up at the same time.

But what about if I said, you've forgotten to order the crane driver and you've forgotten to tell everyone how and where to put the steel work, still, like I say, on paper, you've progressed, but in reality you've taken a step back, you've cost time, you've cost money because you didn't put the fundamentals in place to build yourself out.

And if you now think about that in your mind and you as a person, how can you invest in yourself and your family to grow yourself and to multiply later on?

There's a really good reason why expensive homes and office places with good staff retention are clean, they're tidy, they're made of good quality materials, and it's little details that have been thought through by the designer to make sure that it's a great place for a person to interact, work, and live in.

If you look at Scandinavian design or Feng Shui or the clutter methodology, there's a lot of effort and work and research that has gone into how to keep people calm, productive, and happy in their work places.

One of the biggest causes of burnout in corporate roles in particular is over expectation or overstretching.

This is when you set yourself a target that's unachievable, or your manager is expecting something from a shareholder, which then gets pushed down onto you.

And without simple processes, without a good environment around you and a strategy, you're going to burn out.

It's inevitable that you're going to burn out.

One of the reasons that we talk about environment dictates performance is that because in a workplace and at home, which is often forgotten, your surroundings play such a huge role in how you are in yourself, in how your mood is, your productivity, how your relationships at home are, which ultimately have a huge impact and effect on your relationships at work.

I can certainly recommend that you can take a look at 'the girl who simplified' as well as 'the clutter control methodology' that I spoke about earlier.

We also posted not long ago in September onto our LinkedIn and blog pages, a 30 day challenge. Small steps you can take in your home or maybe your workspace to help you make changes.

Changes are really necessary for the human mind.

We can make these small incremental changes to improve our productivity and enhance our prospects for the future.