I am writing this while on a flight to Phoenix to attend a professional development conference.  I expect to sharpen my capacity to serve those who want best practices resources for optimizing management and team effectiveness. In my next blog I will provide some highlights of what I have added to my knowledge base and the Effectiveness-Top Talent Resource Tool Kit to better serve you.
 
Occasionally, I take out a blank page and record with is on my mind—My WIOMM list.  Seems like a great way to use five plus hours of flight time.  Many of the items on the list are the events of the past couple of weeks.  History-making events in Washington and the on-going saga of the continued financial situation have occupied a lot of mind share and I simply wanted to unload it and get it on paper.  How refreshing to let it go by putting on paper.  I encourage you to do a similar exercise.  It really doesn’t require a long plane trip.  You can refresh your mind in as little as fifteen minutes.  Try it!
 
That said, what am I now free to think about?  How about the future or becoming more forward focused. My friend and colleague, Ed Oakley, whom I will see at the conference introduced me to the NeFER principle in his book, Enlightened Leadership.  NeFER is an acronym for Net Forward Energy Ratio.
 
He discusses a process that results in increasing the ratio of energy you are focusing forward toward where you want to be while reducing the energy focused elsewhere.  His five-step process involves questions designed to cause a mind-set shift. Could you use a mind-set to a more positive focus?  In these challenging times, all of us could.
 
I will cover more of the NeFER principle in my email newsletter this week.  In the meantime, I recommend you empty your mental pending files of all that stuff taking up creative band-width.
 
Let me hear from you with you comments about what is was like for you doing the WIOMM exercise.
 
Enthusiastically,
 
Bob