July 12, 2018
If you’ve never asked them, you can start there. That’s really all there is. There is no complicated mumbo jumbo or fancy leadership style books to read or culture decks to download. Just ask them what they need and start there. The plan, the strategy, the direction? You can figure that out later, but not until you talk to your team.
June 27, 2018
I’ve been wanting to learn to juggle forever, not chainsaws, just basic juggling. Three objects, not four or five. More importantly, I wanted to know how long it would take to from zero to 100. 0 being “I can’t juggle 3 balls”. 100 being “I can juggle 3 balls” Before getting started, I estimated it would take me a solid 12 hours to learn. I used this site as my guide – https://www.wikihow.com/Juggle – printed it, and put it beside my workspace. Here are the results and the time it took. PS – I put this off for a long time, I
June 8, 2018
Are easy to spot. They don’t complain about it. They don’t make excuses for it. They don’t look to their phones for inspiration. They take a moment (because everyone needs one). They figure out what went wrong. They do the work to fix the problem. And they try again with a different approach, different goal and objective. They might fail again, but when they do, they are that much farther than those still complaining and making excuses about it.
May 31, 2018
I’m in the middle of a program/seminar/project/course (you can call it all of these things). It has required me to work with a community of people I don’t know to push my learning, goals, thoughts (and yes dreams) further than I have ever thought possible. With each project/prompt, I have somewhere between 10 – 15 colleagues who know WAAAAY more than me helping me to get better, poking holes in my work, pushing me to achieve and not letting me get off easy when I don’t show up to do the work. This morning I woke up to at 16+
May 30, 2018
Not the picture in 1 month, 3 months or next year. But the big picture, the one that is 5 years down the road, 10 years down the road – that’s the game you need to be focusing on. That’s the picture you need to figure out a way to make less fuzzy and more clear. That’s the picture that’s worth working on and the one that you requires to make time for each and every day. If you’re always focused on what comes next and what failure today means for tomorrow, then you’re missing where you could be in
