Cheeseburgers, Tacos, Sandwiches packed with everything you can think of, heck even a fresh Orange. You take a bite and they melt away in your hands, leaving a mess on the plate, your hands, and possibly your shirt. And yet we order more, more and more and more. It tastes great, it’s worth the mess, the juice is worth the squeeze. All of it can be messy, but the end is perfection. Not everything gets…
If you don’t want to be challenged on your work, you have two choices; Don’t work (improbable). Do work where you won’t be challenged (i.e., something where we don’t care about the quantity or value of what you are doing). But you should want to be challenged in your work, you should want to be pushed, you should want to answer for your work. Because that is the only way you will get better.
Last week, I had a lot of work to get done, so I did the unthinkable – I put myself into Do Not Disturb. I generally don’t like to do this because then I feel unavailable to my team and people asking me questions, but I had to do something. At first, it was very unnerving because all the noise around me went quiet. I literally shut the door to my office, threw away the…
Have you ever watched a show with subtitles? I have a hard time watching “dubbed” over shows, because the words never line up with the video, and my brain can’t unsee it when it happens. Plus, when you hear the original voices and then the dubbed ones, your brain also goes – “those original voices are so much better than these other ones, I like them better”. But then, to understand what is being said,…
But you’re not losing either. You just haven’t won that “thing” you’re after. That’s it, you’re not there yet, but you’re on the right path. When you connect, I don’t know, heck, I don’t even know when I’ll connect. But you’re not losing, you just haven’t won yet. Or so the speech goes.