5. Avoid negative people
Part of stepping back from bad meetings is also avoiding negative people. The time and energy vampires, who feed on your precious hours and whose negativity and lack of support can suck out your enthusiasm to stop your ideas happening.
Avoid the vampires and seek out people with passion, drive and the desire to succeed. Create a network of like-minded individuals who believe in you and your ideas and you will soon see progress.
If you have to have a meeting make sure it is at least with people who can get things done.
6. Always be learning
Those that succeed and those that change the way we do things are those who lift their eyes up from the day to day activity and learn why we can do things differently I’d urge you all to heed the words of Steve Jobs founder of Apple.
He said: "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
"If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."
Make sure you are constantly learning, try and see what others don’t, identify what you want to do about it and why and then create a plan to make it happen.
John Joe McGinley is founder of Glassagh Consulting
