At the core of being driven to accomplish a task will always be your attitude. If you are constantly complaining, whining, and making excuses for the task at hand, then you are not driven. You are simply plodding along on a course that is laid out for you. If you want to be driven, then you need to take control of the journey that is in front of you and make it your own.
Run with it or let it go – no need to let that eat at you until there is nothing left. If you don’t want it, pass it along. But don’t give into the “woulda, shoulda, coulda” game – because that game just pushes you further to the edge.
But you will bit by bit, each day, if you put in the effort. This month is Inktober – one of many prompts across many disciplines focused on incremental results, not over a day, but days, hours, and bit by bit. Seth Godin has crystallized this perfectly when he talks about progress – Drip by Drip.
If they don’t fail, they will never succeed. Let them screw up, let them make the mistake, and help them get better so the next mistake they make, they are further along in the process.
I generally see metrics as what it is – # of users on the site, and # of tickets logged – the factual, the undisputed. It doesn’t mean they are golden, it doesn’t mean they are the absolute truth, it means they are the start of something, the jump-off point, the easy calculation to kick off something else. They are the starting point for what comes next and if they don’t make sense, find a…