Are You In Your Own Way?

The grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal might just be a metaphor for life – how can you get out of your own way and restore flow to your life? This brilliant cartoon from Chaz Hutton reminds us in some ways we’re all like that ship stuck in the Suez Canal.There were a lot

The grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal might just be a metaphor for life - how can you get out of your own way and restore flow to your life?

This brilliant cartoon from Chaz Hutton reminds us in some ways we're all like that ship stuck in the Suez Canal.

There were a lot of funny memes floating (pun intended) around about the container ship finally freed yesterday but this caught my eye.

Because I can relate

Procrastination is my biggest obstacle, and all the to-do lists in the world (and I have a lot of them) aren't helping me get things done.

I need to remove bottlenecks by focusing on the tasks that get me closer to my goals.

I need to define processes and systematise everything - not only to improve my workflow but to allow me to delegate things so I focus on the work that ONLY I can do.

Question: what can you do to improve YOUR workflow?

About the author 

Warwick Brown

Warwick Brown has led business development and account management teams in Australia and Europe for more than 15 years and worked with some of the world's most prestigious firms, including Merck & Co, Deutsche Bank, McKinsey & Company and Vodafone. His mission is to help account managers everywhere who are short on time and big on ambition get results.