{"id":6843,"date":"2015-03-17T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2015-03-17T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:01:45","slug":"supercharging-me-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2015\/03\/17\/supercharging-me-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercharging \u201cme time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/me-time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6844 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/me-time-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"me time\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Taking a few minutes every day for personal reflection has immense value. If you\u2019re worn down and frazzled you can\u2019t be expected to run a successful organization, can you? A lot has been written on the concept of \u201cme time.\u201d For example, a recent Business Insider article titled \u201c\u2018Me time\u2019 could be the key to success,\u201d suggests finding something that you enjoy and then actually doing it on a regular basis. While taking a few minutes every day just for \u201cme time\u201d is a good idea, simply blocking time without providing some focus under-utilizes what could be a very impactful activity.\n\nSo how do you maximize the value of \u201cme time\u201d while maintaining its\u2019 underlying intent of having a personal break from work?\n\nWe have found that scheduling just five minutes a day of \u201cme time\u201d for use as reflection and asking just two simple questions during this \u201cme time\u201d creates immense value:\n\n\u2022 What is one thing I learned today?\n\u2022 How will I use the learning to make life better for myself and others?\n\nIt is amazing what can come out of these simple questions. Not only do people realize important things about themselves and their work, but they are visibly more relaxed, confident and productive, and they get more satisfaction from their work.\n\nNow let\u2019s extend this idea in a paradoxical way. You can have \u201cme time\u201d as part of systematic group reflection. It seems contradictory, but it can be done and, surprisingly, has great value to individuals and organizations.\n\nIn our programs, we develop \u201ccoach-led\u201d Learning Groups that, each week, complete a \u201cdo-discuss-anchor\u201d cycle of reflection. Every week, everyone in a Learning Group completes a personalized exercise based on advice from a star performer about how to handle a realistic work situation.\n\nAfter the exercise, members meet as a group to discuss what they did and, more importantly, what they learned. Focusing on what each person learned and sharing it with others causes people to become intensely reflective; processing more information more completely. We then instruct them to journal about what they learned and how it applies to their life, driving personal reflection even deeper.\n\nPeople consistently report to us that this set of experiences is transformative. Each phase of the do-discuss-anchor cycle drives focused reflection, even though it is a group activity. It is a great way of supercharging \u201cme time\u201d and thereby fostering personal growth and professional development. 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