The Importance of Going Back to Basics

Life and work can often feel over complex and over busy. This can have a negative impact on achieving what matters most to you and leave you feeling overwhelmed. 

That is because complexity, busyness, and feeling overwhelmed can slow down or derail progress and results. It can reduce your personal effectiveness. It also has a detrimental impact on your health and wellbeing too.

And that is why going back to basics is so important. When you adopt a back to basics approach in your life and work you are proactively focusing on the things that make the most difference. You shed complexity. You become more effective. By doing that, you are building strong foundations to succeed, thrive, and achieve what matters most to you in a more effective, sustainable, and healthy way.

If you feel like you would benefit from implementing a back to basics approach in your life and work, here are some practical steps to get you started:

1. Identify the things that add unnecessary complexity, busyness, and overwhelm to your life and work. Create a plan to reduce, eliminate, or manage those things. 
2. Get clear on the things that make the most difference and create the most benefit to achieving what matters most to you. Create a plan to do more of those things. Make them habits. Put boundaries in place to protect them.
3.  Simplify everything. Simplicity is the antidote to complexity, busyness, and overwhelm. Become a master of simplifying. It is a superpower in the quest to achieve consistent and predictable results effectively.  

The bottom line:

We all spend a lot of our time, attention, and focus every day, week, month, and year on things that don’t really matter at the cost of what does. That has a negative impact on progress, achieving what matters most to you, etc. You can change that by creating and implementing a back to basics strategy.