You never peak. If you don’t want to. If you keep learning, you never peak at learning. If you keep running, you never peak at running. If you keep trying, you never peak at trying. There is no peak; there is just another peak to attain.
Since the new year, everyone on my LinkedIn feed has become an expert. I don’t know what happened over Xmas, but everyone is now an expert. Which is scary, because if everyone is an expert, who is doing the learning? And if we all became experts over the 3 week Xmas break, why aren’t we selling that? And if you learned everything, how did you apply it to your job immediately to become an expert?…
Change and Management are two words that should never be put together. After all, who wants to “manage” change? Change is supposed to be fun and free-flowing, inspiring and exciting. It doesn’t need to be managed; it shouldn’t. And yet sometimes it needs to be done. Because when everyone on your team is changing everything, everywhere in the hopes of making things better, they don’t; they just manage everything, everywhere, and nothing else. So you…
I remember when we had to do this in grade school, when the teacher would ask us to mark our own work. Some would give themselves an A+. Others would be too hard on themselves, almost failing themselves. And some would give enough to say – “yeah, good start, but you have more to do.” The ones that didn’t give themselves an A+ are the ones that learned from an early age, it’s not the…
We tell our kids to do their best all the time. So when did we stop doing ours? Do your best, and if your best isn’t up to par, look at what someone else’s best is and use that as your yardstick. We have enough slop floating around, and more growing by the minute. Doing your best isn’t a destination; it’s an ongoing journey.