The goal is always to maximize space to get things done in time – setting yourself up for success with the right tools, working with the right people, and knowing who does what best and where people can be the most productive. Creating this space reduces stress, anxiety, and confusion when the time crunch hits. When the time crunch hits, there shouldn’t be a problem because everyone knows what their space is and how it…
Your new project, your latest endeavor, the next idea you have. Something will break. Something will not work. Something will blow up in your face (maybe on an important Zoom call). Something will go wrong. It’s life, don’t harp on it if it happens to someone else, don’t let it get you down if it happens to you. Something always goes wrong, move on from it.
Successes build strength and courage to try what is next. There is always success in failure… An idea you tried that didn’t quite pan out, but now you know. The code didn’t work as a product but could be a feature. The process that missed the mark, but exposed the cracks that you never saw before. There is success in everything, if you are willing to look for it.
You can probably do many things – and are great at all of them. It doesn’t mean you should be doing all of them… because you probably don’t have the cycles to do all of them as well as you can if you were focused on just a few. When you look at successful training programs – Salesforce, Google – they break their training down into manageable paths focused on answering the one key question…
If you aren’t contributing to the meeting, you might not need to be there. If the push is to still have you there, that means you are there in a support role to speak up when it comes to needing to hear another voice. But if you’re not even doing that, it means you are there because we don’t trust that you’ll get the information you need to do your job successfully. That’s the problem…