Stolen Focus

The day has started on an interestingly positive note. While being nine and a half hour behind colleagues back home, day starts with meeting professional relatives before family relatives. At my age I have developed that ability to keep the two distanced, interactions with one do not affect those with the other group. But positivity overall helps.

We discussed the same issues in the morning (my morning) but the tone was different. All present, barring may be one or two, the participants were same, but the charge was positive. The approach was different. The group's orientation was how to solve problem and not repeat why it can not be solved.

Positivity rubbed on each other.
We agreed.
We took responsibility to act.
We discussed about remedial actions.
We got up to a higher plane.
We took helicopter view.
We lifted our selves from individual's function to business.

That positivity helped in seeing linkages of component's action to whole's purpose of existence. We could agree that every part contributes to business's profitability. We could agree that data, systems and processes can help improving profitability.

We agreed that individual's behaviour related to compliance is an outcome of habits promoted and supported by Organizational ecosystem. That organization can be a family, society or workplace.

We could discuss ways and means of developing good habits to support best practices resulting in desired and acceptable behaviour by each member.

One of the expert present suggested a good read, a book "Stolen Focus" written by a British journalist named Johann Hari. The book was recommended by the psychology expert as it is useful in developing our focus which may help developing appropriate habits. The author says "‘If we want to do what matters in any domain – any context in life – we have to be able to give attention to the right things … If we can’t do that, it’s really hard to do anything."

Here is the summary of the book: "Book Summary: Stolen Focus by Johann Hari" https://www.tobysinclair.com/post/book-summary-stolen-focus-by-johann-hari.

The day looks brighter.