When you don’t know the answer to a problem, you need to go look it up. It might not be as formal as what it used to be – going to the library or bookstore – but what you’re doing is still the same – Research. You’re digging into a topic you want to find the answer to. The problem (if you want to call it that) with Research, is that when we start doing…
If no one listens to what you say, is it really a project you’re working on? Are you actually contributing to something? Are you a part of something? The choice is yours, work with them to get them to start listening to you, help them see what you’re trying to move them towards, or step back and out – you don’t need that ongoing frustration in your life, you have more to offer. Someone is…
Things are great when everything is going your way. When the weather is what you want. When your morning beverage has the right of everything in it with nothing to spare. When your code compiles the first time, it does what it’s supposed to do. Pretty much everything and anything you’re doing, is rocking and rolling your way. These are great days – When things Go our Way – and we are happy for them.…
I can sit you down and give you all the reasons why it won’t work, whatever it is you’re doing, whyever it is that you are doing it. I can come up with all those reasons. Anyone can, whether they know your business or not, they can come up with those reasons on the spot. It’s a new market. It’s not proven. Won’t you need more people? What if this happens? Is it worth the…
Getting additional opinions and input is not about validating that you are right. It’s about validating that you aren’t missing anything. In each of those successive opinions, there might be an additional grain of wisdom or value that you can implement to what you are doing that will help you along. Treating other people’s input as merely “proof” that you are right is not where their value lies, in it’s showing you what you have…