When you are executing on Delivery, Drive, Initiative and Leadership, not timeboxed or componentized, but concurrently, each day, every day you grow. I have to be clear on this last point. You will amaze people with your skillset and they will immediately want you to “keep doing what you are doing” or “focus in on this particular area”. Whether it aligns to where you want to go and what you want to do is…
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Stop worrying about Getting it Right for all and start worrying about Getting it Right for One. One size doesn’t fit all. One approach won’t make everyone happy. What worked for one, will not work for the other. But maybe that one that you are focussing, will turn into two and that two into four and that four into eight, etc, etc, etc. But you’ll never know unless you focus on that one first, because…
If bad weather is on the horizon, we plan our day in an attempt to mitigate its effects. We hear the doom and gloom that keeps building to a crescendo until. It never comes. It wasn’t as bad as we thought. Sure it might have happened a little. But not to the extent that we thought it would. Such as everything you are doing, where sometimes what you forecast is worse than what really happened.
It’s still there, you simply turned off the tap. You let the workload get you down. You let everyone’s else’s demands supercede your own. You tried to make it happen, it didn’t and you became frustrated so you stopped. If you want to get the creativity back, stop thinking of it as some magical genie in a bottle and start seeing it as the labour of work and love that you need to put in…