We all know about the group work exercise where only a few people carry the load of the entire group. Where only a few show up from the first day to the last. Where only a few do what is required and go beyond what is asked for the success of the group. Now imagine if everyone in the group was contributing at that level what could be accomplished? That there is the difference between…
If the answer takes an hour of meeting with pontificating questions that challenge that simple question, then there is no need for the meeting. Instead, there is an immediate need to figure out where you are, after that it’s simple math. A simple calculation… Here is where we are + What has changed that we didn’t know before + Our Updated Buffer (notice no subtraction of “effort” based theatrics)
Writing new code is a great release for whatever is ailing you. It’s that moment when we go from having nothing to creating something that absolutely knocks our socks off. It can be 2 or it can 100 lines, but at the end of the day it is code and if it runs, you created something.
Establishing a habit takes effort, we have to push, we have to have focus, we have to try everything once, twice, thrice, and go back and try again. And then we break the habit, then it stops, and we’re not sure what happened, but it breaks and we have to start again. Only this time, the skills we used to start the habit aren’t going to be the same, instead, we’re going to have to…
There is an Instagram post making the rounds of a metal ball that takes three paths to get to a location. One is linear, with no obstacles, and no dips and the other two have varied paths going up and down. In the end, the paths that go up and down succeed and finish “first”. Not that being first is the goal, the purpose is to show that the straight, clear path isn’t always the…