I went to an excellent breakfast over the weekend where the speaker was Paul McGee – The SUMO Guy. Paul is a great speaker. There was 50 of us and he had us entranced, which is no easy task at 8:00am on a Saturday morning.

Paul was talking about using the S.U.M.O. (Shut Up, Move On) principles when trying to deal with burn-out.

Paul’s primary message was that most events don’t lead directly to an outcome. It’s the event + our reaction to it that normally creates the outcome.

He had a set of questions to ask yourself before reacting to a situation. All this week one of those questions has been ringing in my ears and I share it here:

Where is this issue on a scale of 1-10? (If 10 is death)

This week I have found myself in a number of situations where my reaction was going to be a 7 or 8, but having assessed them they were nothing more than a 2 and in most instance they were a .5 .

If you are interested in the other questions follow the link to a download of the cartoon:

You could even buy Paul’s book .

I think we’ll be inviting Paul back.

tags: SUMO, Paul+McGee, Burn-Out, Breakfast