The process, the plan, the path you had laid out for today, that’s been working for the past few months, that after a constant back and forth you got everyone on board, for now, needs to change. It doesn’t mean the process didn’t work, it doesn’t mean the changes were bad. It means you’ve now outgrown them and now you need something else to keep managing yourself and your growth. If processes stayed the same…
They aren’t supposed to, that’s the idea of preparation, you do it solo. You choose the task. You choose the priority. You make the changes. You choose what’s next. You decide where you need to go. The only person that notices is and will be you.
Specialize, Specialize, Specialize. Own and find your niche, focus on the niche and nothing else. But you can own multiple niches. You can specialize in multiple areas. And what you learn in one will inevitably help you in what you need to do to master the other. The only time it’s scary to be a generalist is when you make assumptions for things you don’t because you have gone as deep as you need.
We’ve all been there, on a call, on a meeting, the problem is being discussed, ideas are being thrown out, but nothing is being decided. You look around the room and see people starting to get disconnected, checking their phones, they are no longer invested and they are losing focus of the problem. It’s at this point that someone needs to take control of the situation at hand, because if they don’t, not only will…
This is always going to happen, someone will not always agree with what you are saying, what you are proposing, what you know to be the right path based on experience and implementation, or maybe just all the work you’ve put into it. You could be the greatest expert in the room and they still won’t listen to you (Even when they say teach us). You might have the whole room on board except for…