Yes, they will always, always go sideways. I worked at a camp many years ago where we gave out a “Loser of the Week” award – it generally went to the same people each week. Why? Because they worked with all the machinery and all the jobs that had a propensity to go sideways. They weren’t Losers (it was funny), they worked hard and delivered, but when things went sideways, they went sideways. Ignore the…
Okay great. Now that we know that, let’s figure it out. The hardest part about change is acceptance; we get mired in it for a long, long time. And then one day we go ahead and do it, and we realize – “I guess I should have started sooner.” If you accept the change early, you’re already moving faster than many.
Small teams make bigger strides. It’s the problem of team development that we’ve been trying to solve for decades. I think it’s because of focus, they look at a problem, discuss options, and iterate towards a solution. They don’t care about what they don’t or what might not work; they just care about seeing if they can do it. When you get bigger, you think more about what you might impact before diving into fixing…
Every day in my inbox, on LinkedIn, and everywhere else is an onslaught of everything I have to learn. If you aren’t already focused on your own plan, these onslaughts will derail anything of what you are hoping to accomplish. Breathe, make a plan, allow for change, but not a complete redirect, and grow. There is so much out there to learn right now; whatever you learn will be beneficial to the path you’re on.
Time Machines don’t exist; if they did, this post would have a different ending. And yet we hope they do for that one chance to go back and make a change that might completely change our life, but in the movies, it drastically alters everything about who we are. And since we don’t have Time Machines, it’s hard to know if this is fact or fiction (currently the latter). You can’t change what happened, but…