If you are working harder and longer to keep up and meet the time demands your business puts on you, you can’t be spontaneous because you have little control of your time.
Only the free are spontaneous. These leaders understand their priorities, have defined what their job is and is not, and have created a schedule that allows flexibility. When we feel like we are in control of our time, we are happy, and when we feel we aren’t in control, we aren’t happy.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an idea, or see someone you’d like to talk to, and be able to spend some time there without looking at your watch knowing you have to rush to get to something else that demands your time?
Redesign your job so you are not fully booked all the time. Leaders can’t do their job very well, or be happy otherwise.
Working on it today
I can be spontaneous as long as it is understood that I am going to scream when I am cannoned from a sling shot or dared to sit in the first row of a crazy roller coaster. I do not like to spin therefore I never sat in with others in a teacup looking spinning ride. I either ride alone or with someone I can grab onto without being slapped or ridiculed. I keep my cool until the last second when all the breath I previously managed well betrays me and evades my mouth. But I guess it all depends on the ride.