1 – Something. 2 – Something Else. 3 – Something Again. You can pick your three reasons, make them up, make them harder and tougher as your work goes by, make them stack on each other, or simply make them so out of this world that you never have to deal with them again. Or you can ignore them and get to work. There will always be reasons and there will always be naysayers, but…
The Work You Don’t Do is always harder to see. The not complaining about others on your team. The not doing only what’s in your bug list. The waiting for work to be assigned before doing more. The not offering to help others. The begrudgingly doing the tasks that aren’t part of your job but someone has to do them. These are the work we never want to do, we never want to be a…
The Work that you Do is more than the code that you ship, the words that you write, the articles you read, the invoicing, the testing, and, in essence, the tasks that you do. The Work That You Do is not your job description. It is how you lead yourself, and how you lead others. It is your ability to show up when things are not going your way. It is the extra 5 -…
Where you do your best work is as important as the work that you do. The environment, the people, your surroundings, your knick-knacks that you fiddle with while on a call. These are all the things that enable you to do your best work. Your favorite mouse and keyboard (oh have I tried with keyboards) are what make you a success and take the “this feels awkward” out of everything you do and let you…
I am writing this on a Saturday. On a day when I should not be concerned with doing anything productive and yet I have that nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that I should be “getting up and doing something… anything”. You have this time, use it. You have this opportunity when no one is around, do something it. This is the time when no one is thinking about work or…