April 3, 2023
Do you have a Plan to Grow? To improve? To get better? To close the gaps that are keeping you up at night? If not, take 30 minutes, (yes that’s all it will take) and come up with one. If you need to put your tomato timer on it to do it, then do it. And if you are still trying to find your 30 minutes because it’s “too much” – ask yourself that same question the next time you leave a 30-minute meeting where you said nothing.
April 2, 2023
If you’re waiting to see how you are doing based on the results of your next review, you’ve already lost. You know how you are doing. You know what you need to work on. You know what your strengths are. Performance Reviews are a confirmation of what you should already know. So go fix what you know you need to work on.
March 31, 2023
You gather a foundation when you learn by reading, watching, assimilating, asking questions, and comprehending – that is foundational learning. But real learning? Real understanding? You learn by doing. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning.
March 25, 2023
I never put “Focus Time” into my calendar but it’s now such a thing that we see it all the time in everyone’s calendar. I’ve done this a few times myself just to get work done – it feels wrong to schedule something that I used to feel was so completely spontaneous and now the work that I love has to be scheduled to complete. I’m trying to figure out how to reverse the trend of having status meetings on status meetings and the only answer I can come to – is to just lessen the meetings. But how do
March 18, 2023
Scoring an open-net goal should be easy, but it’s not. It’s the dream, there is no opposition, no complicated shot needed and all you need to do is drag it in with a little tap. And yet we miss so many of them. We become hyper-focused on not missing because it should be an easy goal, it should be a guaranteed gimme but instead, we forget everything we have practiced up until that point – the shot we have taken a thousand times and we do something different, something we are stressed over, something else. When what we need to
