There are two ways to look at this statement. I didn’t know, but I tried to figure it out. I didn’t know, but I didn’t want to try to figure it out. In both cases, you still don’t know, however, if you take option 1, you show that you want to know, you want to figure it out, and you want to learn more.
You can’t ask for others that which you would not ask of yourself. You can’t have expectations of others if you do not have those expectations of yourself. If you want everyone to be happy, then you will need to be happy yourself. If it’s not the environment for you to be happy, then that tells you something. The bar gets set when you set it and when you keep raising it. But it’s never…
What are they? Do you even know? Do you have expectations on how everyone should behave and act in what they are doing? Do you know what your role is going into your next meeting? If you don’t have expectations of yourself, you cannot have expectations of others, start simple. Be Ready – Arrive on time, mic/speaker, all audio working. Know your role – Am I giving an update? Keep it short and simple. Am…
Or fear of what the blank page might render to you? Better to look at something that is a mess, doesn’t look right, or feels off, then nothing at all.
If everything around you is based upon the perfect conditions unfolding. It will never happen. Find a problem, build a solution, in the worst of conditions. Then you’ll know it can survive the worst of it and still be successful.