You can fight it as much as you want – but you will invariably – always do more than others. You will always do more work, take on more work, and deliver more work. It can be seen as unfair or an opportunity, you can get mad at it or think of what else it could be come later on. Maybe the idea isn’t to realize that there is an imbalance, but rather to realize…
Everyone has a different running pace that is perfectly attuned to our bodies, it is a system that is designed for us to be successful without hurting ourselves. The same applies to the work we do; we have a pace that works for us – I might be able to do a few things at once and keep track of 3 – 4 projects concurrently, someone else might be able to do more or less.…
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…