One of the biggest traps leaders face is the busy trap. We’re constantly busy working on projects, helping our team, and going going going, but we rarely are calling a timeout to make sure that what we’re busy with is helping make the company or team better.

We must exercise better control of our day in order to effectively compete for the goals we want to reach.

Besides, who wants to always be busy spinning your tires in place when you could be racing that nice car around the track?

Learn five things I started doing to intentionally be more effective in my endeavors - and how you can too.