Last week I spent some time in Nashville for the StoryBrand Guide Retreat. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about messaging and marketing lately, and last week gave me some an excuse to dive pretty deep into some thought exercises.

Then, on the way home, we had a couple hours in an airport waiting for our final flight and inspiration hit. I opened my iPad and go to work.

Inspiration is a funny thing. It’s hard to schedule inspiration, but I think it can be done through consistency. When we train ourselves to be consistent in something, we are more likely to find the inspiration. I’m more likely to be inspired to do something when I sit at my desk because I’ve set the space up to inspire activity. But that’s something that plenty of others have explored.

My question for you today is about the smaller windows where inspiration might strike. Where might you be missing opportunities to get something done – knock out some work, process that idea, finish that to-do, or even have that conversation? Why do you think that might be?

I think a lot of us struggle with what I call the “Leadership Blur” – we get so focused on doing the immediate that we rarely slow down enough to think beyond the “next” project. And we all need help seeing through the blur from time to time.

In fact, I built a quick assessment to help you see where the blur might be slowing you down. Feel free to check it out here.

In the meantime, where is your blur costing you productivity? Where is your blur keep you from spending time getting something more important done? What’s one thing you can do to clear the blur this week?