As a Church statement said in support of the latter, “the nation is more united when diverse individuals and groups can work cooperatively to advance sound policy.” The Church has supported religious freedom and non-discrimination bills in the past, including one in Utah in 2015 and another at the federal level in 2019. It is our position that this bipartisan bill preserves the religious rights of individuals and communities of faith while protecting the rights of members of the LGBTQ community, consistent with the principles of fairness for all.
The Church is pleased to be part of a coalition of faith, business, LGBTQ people and community leaders who have worked together in a spirit of trust and mutual respect to address issues that matter to all members of our community. The following statement, distributed to media after the event, expresses the Church’s view of the proposed legislation for the Grand Canyon State: Representatives from the Church of Jesus Christ gathered Monday morning with local government and community leaders on the Senate Lawn of the Arizona State Capitol, where the bill was first announced. They’re epic!īob Goldman was an advertising executive at a Fortune 500 company, but he finally wised up and opened Bob Goldman Financial Planning in Sausalito, California.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is lending its support to a bipartisan bill in Arizona that was filed with the state’s legislature on Monday, February 7, 2022. I say, fill your plate with the vegetarian wings. Which brings us back to that menu at McDonald’s.
As Chris Bailey says, “once we’ve removed distractions … we discover how much, or how little, we truly have on our plate.” Working in a cave to cure a lack of focus may seem like an extreme solution, but the productivity generated by removing distractions could be a game changer. There are very few distractions in a cave, assuming you pay no attention to the spiders and the bats.
If this doesn’t work, have your manager move your workstation to a dark, damp cave. You can also rip the electric wires from under your cubical floor and fill the USB outlets with chocolate pudding. If asking for more mind-bending, bone-crushing assignments goes against your moral code, there are ways you can limit distractions without taking up ice climbing - ways that go far, far beyond Chris Bailey’s suggestion of “downloading a distraction-blocking application for your computer” and “putting your phone in Do Not Disturb mode.”Īs your first step to going distraction-free, pick up a chainsaw and go Stephen King on your computer and your cellphone. Simply contemplating the varieties of McNugget offerings produces a state of flow so fluid it passes and surpasses the hyperfocus required by that ice-climbing idiot, risking their life to climb a popsicle.Īnd what if your regular work assignments do not equal the death-defying feats of an ice climber or the mind-absorbing effort of navigating the menu at Mickey D’s? You are advised to ask for more work. Yes, I’m talking about the menu at McDonald’s. To achieve flow at your job, you want to approach every assignment with the level of concentration demanded of, say, an ice climber clinging to a frozen waterfall with grizzly bears nipping at their heels.Ĭhris Bailey calls this state of total attention “hyperfocus.” It can only be experienced when “the challenge of completing a task is roughly equal to our ability to complete it.” While the assignments you receive at work may be equal to the ability of a banana slug, you can find areas of your life where a high level of complexity leaves no room for distractions to slip in. If you doubt it, immerse yourself in “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,” a book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (or, as his closest friends call him, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). On the other hand, the total immersion required by a complex project will make you more productive. “This idea isn’t a popular one,” Bailey admits, “especially with those who feel they’re already working at capacity.” Is it a popular idea with you? Before you say yes, try to remember the last time you went to your supervisor to ask for more work - and the more complex, the better.Īuthor Bailey endorses complex assignments because they “demand more of our working memory.” (What they do to your goofing-off memory is not considered.) By taking on a difficult and demanding assignment, your mind doesn’t have time to be seduced by the distractions around you such as the internet, the cellphone or the centerfold in your monthly copy of Miniature Donkey Talk magazine.
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