You start off with a pile of work, and all you start doing is shovelling through them, you don’t stop, you just keep going and keep plowing through. You dig and you dig and you don’t stop digging. Then you’re partway there, the light is faint, but it is there. So you keep digging. And towards the end, you’re almost there, and then you decide to pull back, stretch, relax. And the worst thing you…
Five years ago, we went through a big event that changed the world, where everyone had to work from home. During that time, we got to peek into what everyone’s perfect work environment looks like, and if you looked closely, one thing became incredibly apparent. What works for you does not work for me, and vice versa. Through that, we got to see where people are most productive at what they do. And yes, work…
There it is, the truth, you will… always… miss… something. The goal is not to miss the big things, the things that matter most to you in life. It’s probably a combination of work and personal, as is the case with most everyone else. Missing a conference, missing a post, missing what someone else is doing. Doesn’t matter, you can’t see it all, and you need to stop trying to do. Zero in, focus on…
You can sit all day in meetings, and work through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and keep doing that day after day after day. Or you can start and see what happens. I vote for starting.
The rules change, and they aren’t always fair. In which case, you have two options – complain and stay still, or accept, keep moving forward, and push your own change from within. Nothing is set in stone; everything you think is set in stone is not. The Internet changed that, and AI is changing it again. Rules change and evolve, don’t fight it, embrace it.