What I Learned This Week: Jay Shetty — Take Time Between Meetings & 5 Habits

The most valuable lesson I learned this week is that we should take a breath — or 3 — between meetings.

In an interview with Emma Grede, podcaster and author Jay Shetty said everyone should take a breath between meetings or before a meeting so we don’t carry the baggage from the last meeting into the next one. Most of us walk into a new meeting carrying with us what happened in the last one — especially if something bad happened — and we don’t give ourselves a second to decompress or regroup before we throw ourselves back into the storm.

Pause and calm your energy by taking a few breaths between high impact meetings so you can be fully present.

He then named 5 habits high performers practice:

1 - Thankfulness — If you aren’t thankful for where you are at, you will never be — no matter how much you achieve. Be thankful.

2 - Insight — Learn one new thing — or one new insight — every day.

3 - Mindfulness or Meditation — Schedule meetings or check-ins with yourself at the beginning, middle, or end of everyday, and don't cancel it.

4 - Exercise — Making it collaborative and competitive can help make it a habit. Find accountability partners.

5 - Sleep — People don’t realize how much sleep can boost and optimize their lives.

This week, find ways to be more thankful, learn something new every day, set and keep meetings with yourself, exercise every day, and get enough sleep.