You have free time, you just aren’t using it. You’re scrolling. You’re browsing. You’re wasting. You’re doing anything but you would truly like to be doing in your free time. And yes, resting is better than any of the above, that is a solid use of free time.
Weekly meetings can be divided into two categories – ones where people need to hear from you and ones where you need to get something out of it. Sometimes they are one and the same, sometimes they aren’t. Team Status meetings where ten people give their updates, are meetings where someone needs to hear from you – you can try to automate it with an email or status report, but eventually, they want to hear…
You will mess up, that much is true. You can either learn from it or get mad at it, complain about it, wish that it never happened, or give up. Or, you can learn from it, you can figure out what you did wrong, and you can figure out a way to get better. “Masters” get mad when they mess up, but the learners, the ones that are learning for life, relish the chance to…
I like to think that it’s completely up to you, you are in complete control of what comes next and where you go from here. You might not have chosen how you got here or what you did, but now that you are – what comes next is entirely up to you. You can complain about it, or do something about it.
No one likes the Hiccups. No one asks for the Hiccups. Getting rid of the Hiccups is an exercise in trying a variety of cures that might work for some people but not all (which further exasperates us). And eventually, they go away, and we move on, and get back to what we were doing in the first place. Truth be told, we have Hiccups every day, they just don’t make that annoying noise we’ve…