The hardest part of starting a new goal is accepting that you need to start it and taking that immediate first step. That first step can be any of the following; Paying the fee. Showing Up. Sending an email. Confirming your response. Signing Up. Saying Yes. Picking up the Pencil. No work is required at this stage, only commitment, and that’s the hardest part.
Do you understand what your role on the team is? What do you contribute? Where do you create value? What do you do that helps your team directly and those you interact with? What do you make better? How many times have you asked yourselves these questions? Your role isn’t rooted in your title, it’s in what you do and contribute.
Everyone does, and we can hold it against them or we can remind them. But if they keep forgetting then it might be something else that you’re missing and so are they.
Growth doesn’t happen because you say – “Time for Growth” – it happens when we make time for it when we work towards it when we push the activities holding us back away from it so we can create room to enable it to happen. You might have to get up earlier, you might have to stay up later, or you might have to push out that thing you like to make it happen. These…
The only way to grow, to maintain growth, is to stay uncomfortable. When we are comfortable, growth does not occur, we become satisfied, we “made it”, and we “are here”. But to grow, to get better, and to improve, requires shedding your comfort and becoming uncomfortable once more.