Don’t talk about it. Don’t do a post on it. Don’t evangelize it. Don’t youtube it, instagram it, snap it, tiktok it. Definitely keep it off of LinkedIn. Just be it, live it every day, and embolden your path and those around you. Remind yourself every morning what it is, and hold yourself to that standard. You won’t get as many likes, you might not get people flocking to your job portals and it probably…
I go in spurts of reading where I definitely don’t read as much as I should. But every time I go back to it, no matter how long I have stayed away from it. Every page and chapter I read, my mind becomes overflowing with ideas. It’s the kick to make you think of other ideas and maybe it’s not reading for you, but whatever it is, find it and keep doing it.
Do you have any? Take it. Better yet if you don’t have it, schedule it into your life. We all need time to breathe, to the game, to read, to draw, to run, to workout, to do whatever it is that gives us a chance to catch our breath and feel better about ourselves and everything around us. The best thing about Free Time is that our minds wander and we take a second look…
Do you have a Plan to Grow? To improve? To get better? To close the gaps that are keeping you up at night? If not, take 30 minutes, (yes that’s all it will take) and come up with one. If you need to put your tomato timer on it to do it, then do it. And if you are still trying to find your 30 minutes because it’s “too much” – ask yourself that same…
If you’re waiting to see how you are doing based on the results of your next review, you’ve already lost. You know how you are doing. You know what you need to work on. You know what your strengths are. Performance Reviews are a confirmation of what you should already know. So go fix what you know you need to work on.