You only have the solution to the problem when you see all the angles to the problem. And you only see all the angles to the problem when you admit you don’t know everything and you need to figure out a different way to make it work. Seeing all the angles starts with admitting you don’t have the answer.
Old ideas don’t die. They get re-packaged, updated, built upon, and shipped in something different and better than before. They evolve. Just because you did something before and it didn’t work, doesn’t mean it won’t work this time with a few tweaks to it.
Last week, we turned the clocks back – cue all the noise about Daylight Savings. The thing is everyone fell back. The question is whether you were willing to launch forward while everyone else was.
Living by a schedule works, it helps give you consistency and reproducibility in all that you do. It takes the decisions away from what you are trying to accomplish and simplifies your decision-making. When it breaks, it doesn’t go that well, you fall off, and you’re not sure what you should do next, how to do you get back on, where do you go from here. Forget the big picture of what you should do,…
Everyone can do something. But not everyone will do something. Some know the difference between those two words, but many don’t. Don’t say – “I can do it”, say – “I will do it” – own your decision, find your direction and push forward to it.