You can sit all day in meetings, and work through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and keep doing that day after day after day. Or you can start and see what happens. I vote for starting.
The rules change, and they aren’t always fair. In which case, you have two options – complain and stay still, or accept, keep moving forward, and push your own change from within. Nothing is set in stone; everything you think is set in stone is not. The Internet changed that, and AI is changing it again. Rules change and evolve, don’t fight it, embrace it.
Probably? Maybe? Doubtful. So do you delegate? Accept less? Quit Quietly? Perhaps you want to do it all, maybe you need to do it all, but the truth is that you can’t do it all. That realization can come too soon, or very late, where feelings of regret and failure seep in. What’s important is the moment you have this question pop into your head, you realize you can’t do it all, and you shift…
In Good Weather, anything is possible. The sun is shining, everything is dry, possibilities are endless. But in Bad Weather, it rains, it snows, things get wet, leak, the temperature is cold, everything is imperfect, and harder to do. You might have loved to run and bike in the summer, but now, in the fall, in the winter, what are you going to do? Trudge through snowdrifts, wear heavy boots? And run? You need to…
I had to winterize a hot tub this weekend. I have never done this in my life. I watched YouTube, I asked ChatGPT, and I looked up the model I had. In the end, water was everywhere, the power was off, and it took longer than I thought. Such is learning, that’s exactly what it is – and now I know how to do it better for next season. Don’t turn that goodness completely over…