Tim DaviesCEO Projekt Rising - The expert AI partner for SMEs

The importance of creating dedicated time for strategic thinking in business

7 Jul 2024

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A short conversational YouTube transcript (July 2024) where speakers—including Tim Davies—argue that entrepreneurs must deliberately block dedicated time for reflective, strategic thinking despite busy schedules. They emphasise creating headspace, treating thinking time as scheduled (not 'free') and practising to get the mind into the right state for problem-solving and idea generation.

I think I was thinking about this before coming on here today. Was do, are we, are we as individuals giving ourselves enough time to think about our business in where it's going or even to think about other businesses? You know, as an entrepreneur, we should always be open to new ideas. You know, what, what can we do next? And when we're in this world, we seem really busy, don't we? Everyone is so busy. To actually create the headspace to think about new ideas is really important.
I was chatting with somebody on a very similar topic just last week and saying you've got to have that free time within your schedule. And it's not really free time. It's dedicated time to solving a particular challenge. But it's almost blocking thinking time. And that thinking time needs to be when you know your mind's going to be in the right state. You only really get that by practicing.