Or what could go right. Or what could break. Or where your errant shot might go. Or what people will think. Or what it’ll feel like. Or how many followers you’ll get. Or how many likes you’ll get. Or when you’ll be okay with it. Don’t worry about any of it, don’t give any of it the time of the day, just grind through it, push through it – and make it happen.
Are you really open to a New Idea? Or are you paying lip service. You know the answer, we all do. We all the know the moment we stop listening and start hearing the rest of the conversation in the hope that it will eventually finish. Or that we ask someone to present their idea knowing full well we aren’t going to accept it and have already started to move forward in other areas. These…
Code Review, Style Review, Editor Review… Pick whatever it is- someone looking at your work, taking a moment to break it down and give you feedback on it. How will you take it? Frustration – at everything you missed? Anxiety – while the review itself is going on? Gratefulness – that someone took the time to actually look over work? Determination – to listen to the reviews and make it better, not simply for a checkbox to…
The “Technology Fail” Meeting Wait for everyone to connect via their conferencing system choice. Mute people who are driving through a tunnel that don’t want to mute themselves. Try to share a screen that gets pixelated or worse you realize you can’t share until the last moment. It ends with everyone saying – “Let’s meet in person next time” – defeating the purpose of everyone being online. The “Yesterday’s Update” Meeting Everyone drops what they are…
What is it when someone comes down on us for doing a poor job that we become emboldened to prove them wrong? Show them the error of their ways? Work twice as hard to impress that wrote us off as nothing? When we are fighting with a piece of technology and machinery, we can’t give up, we have to keep hammering it, throwing a wrench at it, anything and everything to make it work while…