{"id":93,"date":"2012-03-21T06:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickduffel.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2012-03-21T06:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:42:05","slug":"leadership-wednesday-the-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"LEADERSHIP WEDNESDAY: The Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why do lion tamers use the tools they do? \u00a0I mean the whip makes sense, but why a chair or a stool?<\/p>\n

I read somewhere that a chair can be very confusing for a lion. \u00a0The lion is biologically programmed to have laser-like focus on one thing. \u00a0He is a predator, designed to spot, track, and kill. \u00a0If you stick a chair in his face, he all-of-a-sudden has four things to focus on instead of one.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s forced multitasking.<\/p>\n

You see where I\u2019m going with this?<\/p>\n

As a leader, you are designed and honed by God to be focused on one thing at a time; maximizing your impact in that moment. \u00a0Your family, that task, that conversation, that event, that project. \u00a0They all deserve your undivided attention.<\/p>\n

You can only give your undivided attention to one thing at a time. \u00a0 Multitasking is a myth.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We are rendered next to useless by our distraction-laden, fragmented world.<\/p>\n

The new world of social networking and social media is a big huge chair in your face. \u00a0A useful chair, yes, but one that must be batted away from time to time so you can focus on what REALLY matters.<\/p>\n

Time to kill the chair and unleash your predator focus.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why do lion tamers use the tools they do? \u00a0I mean the whip makes sense, but why a chair or a stool? I read somewhere that a chair can be very confusing for a lion. \u00a0The lion is biologically programmed to have laser-like focus on one thing. \u00a0He is a predator, designed to spot, track,… Read More »LEADERSHIP WEDNESDAY: The Chair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[78,84,113,119,146],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-2","tag-focus","tag-god","tag-leaders","tag-marriage","tag-productivity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-1v","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}