Todd Mitchem

CEO, Speaker, and Author

“As the CEO of our small firm, I stay efficient by first doing what I call, ‘Shutting it Down.’

This involves me having the discipline of shutting my phone off, my email, or whatever distraction could take me off course. In the past, I tried to be all things to all people, but I realized if I wanted to achieve a big goal, like when I wrote my book You, Disrupted: Seizing the Life You Want by Shaking, Breaking, and Challenging Everything, I had to clear the clutter and noise of a modern society to stay focused.

All of my successful friends and colleagues do the same thing. We are made to believe that we must always be plugged in, checking status, and jumping when a new notification pops up, but this is flawed and limited thinking. By ‘Shutting it Down,’ we are able to become immersed in the task at hand, and we could finally focus on creating.”