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Growth

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Teams shift based on external factors – opportunities and threats. One makes them, urges them to take on more, excited for what is next. One pushes them to hide, close ranks, become insular, and worry about what may come. Every shift is an opportunity and a threat, depending on who you are and what your narrative is. The question becomes, what your team sees as a threat and what you need to do to shift…

When you cycle, you often times go into a high gear to exert less power. Then, when the hills come, you drop a gear to reduce resistance. For each person, when they go up/down a gear, the level of resistance and when they change a gear is different. But regardless, they do it for the same reason – to maintain momentum.

The first 15 pages are the test. They might not be your speed – perhaps too fast, too chaotic, too slow – perhaps that’s the narrative of the story taking place, and they want you to feel that. But they are a test. If you can get through the first 15, the next 15 might be better, or maybe you’ll have enough knowledge to know that they aren’t as bad. Then, when you’re 150 pages…

When you’re learning something new, it’s the frustrations that make it worthwhile because when you break through, you realize just how far you have come. I use AI to help on the daily with tasks that I know, should know, and have worked through in the past. I went through those frustrations and learned how it worked behind the scenes so I could get to that point. If you haven’t gone through the frustrations, you…

Not at your desk. But for your work. For what you do. What do you deliver? What you strive to do the best day in and day out. No one can ever fault you for giving your best, for trying to accomplish your goals, and for standing up for what’s right. And if they do, then it’s their problem and not yours.