Time to Think

It's so easy to get caught up in our lives and our business and just keep running, never taking any time to stop and think about what we're doing. We don’t think strategically about our lives, about our business, and then months later, years later, we look back and say, "How the heck did we get here?"

So what do you do to stop and think? I'm not talking about creating strategy as a team, I'm talking about as an individual. What do you do to stop and think about your life, stop and think about your career or your business?

For me, it's a four mile walk that I try to take most mornings. That's like my meditation. Sometimes I'll just listen to music, sometimes it's a podcast, sometimes nothing. Sometimes I'll go out with some questions I need the answer to, sometimes I'll go out with nothing much in my head at all. But I always seem to come back with ideas more refreshed. I take my phone with me, not so I can talk on the phone, but I use the recorder app on my phone because when I go out and take my walk and just think, I will always come back with five or 10 new ideas that I've recorded.

So what do you do? What do you do to spend some time alone, to stop and think about your life, about your business? What is it that you do to think more strategically?