10 months ago
The Role You Want at the Time you Don’t Want it – that’s what the title of this post was meant to be – but it was very wordy. I’ve had that happen a number of times – you work hard for something, only not to get it, but then, when you least expect it, it comes back to you, and you aren’t sure why, but the timing’s off – you can accept it. Roles come and go, sorry, the formality of those roles come and go, but in the end the roles are always there for us and you
10 months ago
Memories grow with experience. What worked? What didn’t work? What should we have done? What should we never do again? How did we feel? Memories give us experience, and they allow us to relive them, play them over again and again in our heads. The Memories are what remind us of what we are working towards and give us the reminder for where we can go.
10 months ago
If you have someone on your team, that makes you want to show up better, earlier, and smarter than the day before. Then that person is your leader. It doesn’t matter what’s on the org chart; they are your leaders, and they are the ones who will make you better than you are today. Volunteer to work with them. Ask them questions. Get them to review your work. Listen to their feedback and apply it. This is the person you want to work with and learn from. This is the person that will help you grow and leapfrog others.
10 months ago
I recently had my jet pump “stop” working. I didn’t know where to look as I had never had this happen, and had to go find the fix on the Internet. To give you an idea of what I was contending with, see the picture below. From there, I still had no idea how to configure this thing to start working so then I had to go check out this video (which was immensely helpful in explaining the product). Important to note in the above picture are those two springs and the nuts on top of them. To configure the
10 months ago
Despite our best intentions, your daily routine will be derailed. You might make the first day, possibly the second, but some factor outside of your control will derail it. You can “sub” in alternatives to your routine to get work done, but there will always be this feeling of “I didn’t uphold my routine.” This is true, you didn’t, on this day, the streak was over, and now you start again. But you subbed in something different that maybe didn’t get you exactly what you wanted, but made up for it and filled the gap for you to start again.
