There’s a way of presenting ourselves that is common with small business owners and managers, and it’s flavoured with hustle.
It includes, but is not limited to emails overflowing with missing words and mistakes, shortcuts and abbreviations, being late to meetings or not showing up, over-committing, adding too many new things into the mix and searching for feedback such as alerts, notifications, likes and followers rather than impact for the people you want to serve.
Interestingly, these are usually ways of behaving, or habit loops, rather than necessities. There is zero proof that introducing distractions or adding multiple tasks on top of your current one will improve performance, yet, it can be a cultural norm.
Of course, there is another way – this is by trying to elevate the integrity of our actions and word, our presence in each activity and the change we’d like to make.
Of course, it may mean that we need to cut out some of the crap also.
Cultivating intent isn’t necessarily going to solve everything, but it certainly will beat adding a tone of distraction and hustle for the sake of fitting in.
