AI gets it perfect. My writing is not so much. When I was writing Code Your Way Up, the editor called me the “King of Run-On Sentences”. Not too bad a crown to wear. I won’t be writing with /tone any time soon. And that way, you’ll always be able to know it came from me.
I started writing this blog in 2014, now, almost 12 years later, through ups and downs, on days I wrote, and days I couldn’t, through the good grammar and the bad, through the good comments and the bad, I’ve reached a number I never would have thought possible. 3,000 No AI (You’ve seen the grammar, right?) No Idea Generators (I mean, who would come up with some of these ideas?) Barely a blip on the…
There is a shift that happens internally when you take the lead. You’re no longer sitting on the sidelines complaining. You’re no longer putting your hand up in meetings to have your say. You’re no longer asking for permission. You’re taking the reins, you’re mobilizing the team, you’re moving forward. You’re taking the Lead.
A plan can be on a napkin, on post-it notes, a bullet journal, a piece of cardboard, or a ripped piece of wood. Plans on computers are good, but they aren’t great. The plans are not on computers; those are the ones we touch and commit to – each task is an assignment we are giving ourselves, and each time we scratch it off is a measure of achievement. You can’t get there from task…
It’s almost the end of summer and what did you do? Did it go as you planned? Did you fit in all your workouts and extra learning? Did you rest? Did you find time to look at the sky? If you didn’t, there is still time, and maybe you don’t want to do it anymore, and that is fine too. It’s your summer, as long as you’re happy with how it turned out—who’s to say…