July 12, 2024
Dreams are Meant to be Chased
If it was easy to find the dream job, reaching the apex of your career, batting 1.000. Everyone would be doing it. But everyone’s not doing it, so keep chasing. Because not everyone does.
Articles for category: Initiative
July 7, 2024
The Finishing Touches
I like building the foundations, I can make them as durable and resilient as possible. I can build all the hooks and failsafes that no one cares to look for but are happy they are there. The finishing touches are another matter, they slow me down, and cause me to question myself and everything I’m doing. Because I’m no longer thinking about what I want it to look like, but what others might want it to look like, or act, or feel, or interact with. We forget about the finishing touches when it comes to conversations, texts, meetings – we
July 4, 2024
Communication Patterns Gone Wrong
Communication goes through many people. Along the way, it can become distorted, messages missed, and chaos and confusion ensue, the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing, and no one is sure what the other is doing. This happens, even with the best of teams, it happens. There is a trap that comes with these blips in communication – more meetings, more checkpoints, more communication – more, more, more – we need to scale the quantity of what we are doing because that will make it better. This is false. The harder discussion is to discuss the quality
July 3, 2024
Catching Up
The secret to catching up. You’re always catching up. You’re always behind. What you learn today, will push you to learn more tomorrow. Focus on the work you’re doing, not the need to catch up, it’s a neverending game and neverending games, never end 🙂
July 1, 2024
Next Steps
The next steps only happen if you’re willing to take them. Willing to look for them. Willing to see where they are. Otherwise, they aren’t there, you can’t see them and you don’t know where to go. But make no mistake, any next step taken is 100% yours.