Awareness stops us getting lost in the web of habits that control so much of our thought and action. If STOP is the tool of all tools, awareness is the capacity of all capacities.
Proceed when purpose and next steps are clearĪt its center is awareness – the ability to be fully present to the moment and to create the space in which we can choose.Organise your thoughts to create coherence.So, I’ve come to a much simpler, but more challening approach, in which I keep asking myself, ‘What do I do now?’ Tim Gallwey, in his book The Inner Game of Work, has a neat little process (which he calls ‘the tool of all tools’) for this, called STOP. But there isn’t – not that I’ve found, anyway. This wouldn’t matter it there were a perfect technique that would always cause me to use my time in the best possible way. The new way of working becomes yet another habit that I follow without thinking. But then, as I become more skilled in using the technique, I stop thinking about it. Applying any enw technique initially forces me to think about my priorities and focus on where my time is going. I’ve finally realised that this is less to do with the technique itself and much more to do with the thoughfulness that applying a new technique requires. Whatever I try, I find that initially the new technique makes a real difference, but only for a short while. Over the years, I have tried many different ways to improve my use of time and become more productive at work.
Mike Munro Turner summarises the STOP technique for time management
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