If you are spending the first 20 minutes of a one-hour meeting, what is the point of your meeting? You aren’t ready to have that meeting. Not probably, not maybe, not kinda sorta. You’re not ready. Figure out the point of the meeting, explain it clearly, concisely, in under 2 minutes – use the rest of the time to address the point. Not to figure out what the point is.
Your job might not fulfill you. Honest but true. You might have a job that doesn’t fulfill you. The next step is finding what fulfills you and putting time into that to counteract the work that doesn’t fulfill you. But first, you have to identify what actually fulfills you – and that’s the hard part – asking and learning what makes us feel great.
I can’t count how many times I have finished a project, only for a new version, an upgrade, a patch, an extended release, a beta, something, anything to come out that required change. I was once told that if you don’t want your software to change often, build software for hardware. (I’m not sure if this is true, but it has stuck with me). You gotta change, you gotta realize the only constant in life…
When you’re in a canoe by yourself, you control where you go – maybe not that fast- but you can do it all yourself. Add another person and you have someone at the bow and stern (front and back), your power increases two fold. As long as you are going in the same direction. Key to this movement is the stern steers and the bow is power – both can’t steer, both need each other…
There is only one way to get weeds out of the ground – pull them. You might use chemicals or some other miracle compound, but at some point, you’ll need to pull what is left so it doesn’t take root and grow again. Same with Rocks – the only way to move them is to pick them up and put them somewhere else. You can roll them, use a machine, push them up a hill,…