Right now, we are working towards finding the perfect gift for those special people in our lives. We are all starting early, trying as hard as we can to get a jump on things. But we all know, it will be a last-minute scramble. Some of us do our best work late with our back against the wall. All I ever think of, though, is that the right gift is always what the person isn’t asking…
You start off with a pile of work, and all you start doing is shovelling through them, you don’t stop, you just keep going and keep plowing through. You dig and you dig and you don’t stop digging. Then you’re partway there, the light is faint, but it is there. So you keep digging. And towards the end, you’re almost there, and then you decide to pull back, stretch, relax. And the worst thing you…
There it is, the truth, you will… always… miss… something. The goal is not to miss the big things, the things that matter most to you in life. It’s probably a combination of work and personal, as is the case with most everyone else. Missing a conference, missing a post, missing what someone else is doing. Doesn’t matter, you can’t see it all, and you need to stop trying to do. Zero in, focus on…
If you want to play at the level you want to be at, you’re going to have to show up the way they do. Know the work. Know the industry. Know the team. Know the deliverables. And if you don’t know all those things, then you’re going to have to get learning to get up to speed. If you don’t want to do that work, that’s fine; you’re not ready to play at that level…
I had to winterize a hot tub this weekend. I have never done this in my life. I watched YouTube, I asked ChatGPT, and I looked up the model I had. In the end, water was everywhere, the power was off, and it took longer than I thought. Such is learning, that’s exactly what it is – and now I know how to do it better for next season. Don’t turn that goodness completely over…