Tournament Brackets: Not just for March Madness, but also for your life.

My posts over the last week or so have dealt with how stress and busyness can keep us from living a balanced life and achieving true success in our life and work.

For many, the major cause of stress and busyness is the choices (or lack of choices) that we make.

I’ve observed in my own life that it’s not the choice between a good activity and a bad activity that causes my life to get out of balance.  In fact, those choices are usually quite obvious, and quite simple to make.

Rather, it’s the choice between two seemingly good activities that can lead to stress if I have no basis for making a decision and no plan for prioritizing them.

The recent NCAA March Madness basketball tournament reminded me of an interesting – and fun – technique to help make decisions and clarify priorities between any number of seemingly good or equal choices. [Read more...]