No one goes into work excited to clean up a mess left there the day before (or by the night shift). We want a fresh start, new beginnings, new opportunities to be successful. So don’t let someone else’s day start that way. Clean up your mess. Leave things better than you found them. Put in the extra 15 minutes to make someone’s entire day better. It’ll be worth it.
Go find the busiest coffee shop you can, buy the biggest drink you can handle and listen. Listen to what people are talking about, listen to what is ailing them, listen to what they are working on. Note: Don’t steal their ideas or do anything illegal or stalkerish. If that’s too “out there” for you, go sign up for a new course or program you have never done before. GlassblowingArcheryDrawingSkeetballNeedlepointCooking Whatever that takes you out…
Two words that can change the direction of your meeting in a heartbeat. Heads Up. Look out. And plenty more that you can come up that speaks more to what is going to happen than what has happened. They are the words that your team hears and perk up at knowing what comes next is going to be action, direction and implementation for whatever they are working on. Whatever they are to you, find them,…
If it’s not at your place of work, it doesn’t mean you need to leave. It means you need to find your team elsewhere. It means you need to lead the search to find them. It means its up to you to decide how badly you want it. (this is the part that everyone gets stuck on)
You don’t need to check that news site one more time – nothing has changed – at least nothing worthwhile. If you’re in a rut or at a place where there is never enough to do, than it’s time for you to start figuring out how to get enough to do. That’s it. Make a Plan, stick to it, and stop spending the hours browsing news sites, watching YouTube or setting up your playlists. Focus…