There are people who love to walk slowly and without direction. I must confess that I don’t, I need a motivation to get up and get in motion. Even when I am on vacation, I like having a goal and a goal to know which route I am going to take. Once I have put myself tennis and have left home, I tend to continue walking along the route drawn until I reached my destination.
Rob Walker, author of The Art of NoticingHe said that when he walks, he likes to impose a mission or build a framework around it to add a little novelty and commitment to an activity that is “literally pedestrian.” “Otherwise, you can easily end on your phone or in your head, where all you do is ruminate the deadline you are jumping or the Sabelotodo comment that someone made to you,” he said. “And there could be dragons walking around and you wouldn’t realize.” I agree with this perspective, however, I recognize that, at the moment, staying focused can be difficult.
Therefore, I firmly believe that it is worth doing whatever it is necessary to stay focused, remove distractions and draw the path of the road, because the benefits of regular walks are well documented and well -planned projects have greater opportunities to get to fruition. If walking reduces the risk of many health problems, such as heart disease, anxiety and depression, and diabetes, planning to achieve what we want to follow up on what we intend.
Either we need to take ten thousand steps per day or carry out a series of bizarre planning steps to achieve the benefits of continuing to focus. Some motivation is needed that help us generate purpose and it seems to me that some of Walker’s most creative forms to take a walk serve as an excellent metaphor at the corporate level and for our entrepreneurship plans.
1. Walker recommends a sound route. Exit and tune in to the sounds around you, Walker said. “We are so visual that we lose many things that happen with our other senses,” he said. What serves to walk, also serves for the field of business. You have to go further, beyond the song of the birds or the common place. Discover some of the most extravagant sounds in your area, pay attention to those details that others take for granted.
2. The challenge of the calendar. Walker likes to consider creative challenges. To walk, he suggested, try to take pictures for your neighborhood as if you were a dozen photos for a wall calendar. At the corporate level, “anything that is rare” that can generate inspiration to oneself and your work team can work. If you feel especially inspired, the search for solutions can be something effective and truly fun.
3. To take the account. The numbers are important. We have to choose the appropriate parameter is relevant. Walker says that when walking, telling more than the steps is an easy way to be aware of what surrounds you, “but it requires some concentration. It is about having a goal to chase. I have discovered that having a goal keeps us focused a little more time. Walker tells that one afternoon he stated that he would walk until he saw twenty baseball caps and achieved it.
4. A colored circuit. Walker says that putting a goal to focus on a color during the walk is of great help to stay focused. If you decide for the blue color, for example, pay attention to all the blue things you see, Walker said. This approach is a wonderful tool to continue paying attention. That includes objects or areas where you would not repair. “Sorpride yourself when you find beautiful colors in a little beautiful context,” Walker said. This helps us find solutions in places where we would not look for them regularly. He takes photographs in the foreground of a wall painted in a alley, or the hood of a car, he said, “simply trying to see interesting colors regardless of its context.”
The metaphor of the walk that Walker offers us is a great parallel that helps us keep us focused to achieve our results without losing motivation on the road. It caught my attention so much listening to him to talk about a portable bathroom of intense blue in his neighborhood that took a few photos. Walker inspired me to find solutions in places other than those that I would normally access, take different paths that stop novel solutions.
Sometimes, we start a project like who goes out to walk aimlessly. It is clear that going out to take steps is good for health, as starting new projects can be very beneficial for business life. However, starting aimlessly can lead us to places where we may not want to be. On the other hand, when we remain focused we achieved the necessary motivation to move forward.
The one who goes out to walk aimless can get bored and stop doing it or not find the purpose to do it the next day. The one who has an objective knows the address, the steps to follow, what he must expect, the efforts to be required. Starting a project that has been planned will have a better possibility of being successfully executed.
There are those who think it is fun to improvise and they may be right. However, fun can become tragedy in the long term. There are people who need that purpose to move forward and make sense of motivation. That gives us the prize to dominate art so difficult to remain focused.
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