We go onto wikipedia to find the plot of a movie we didn’t want to watch the rest of or a book we didn’t want to finish. We have that innate urge to know what happened because as we sat there reading or watching, we couldn’t figure it out. The same goes for your team, if you can’t find the plot, if you can’t direct it, if you can’t call it out – all your…
Someone makes a cool video and everyone jumps on. It becomes a trend and everyone starts to do it because they get views – the trend becomes bigger but then becomes stale as innovation drops. Now it’s just someone else doing the same thing they’ve seen a thousand (or more times). No one wants to do the same thing over and over again in life, but it exists for views (the exact opposite of why…
The New Year started 2 days ago. Have you finished all your goals and met all your resolutions? Are you executing as well as you said you would? Are you doing this now but when you go back to work everything will come bearing down on you and you’ll be stopped in your tracks? Find your Learner within, that which can sustain and meet your schedule, that which doesn’t have the expectation to get everything…
A sponge absorbs everything around it. It doesn’t expel it all correctly, but absorbing is what it does perfectly. If you can be a sponge and absorb everything, focus on that one great thing, you’re far ahead of so many you aren’t even doing that. Be the sponge that absorbs it all, everything else will fall into place from there.
It’s not that you haven’t had time. It’s that you haven’t MADE the time. Put it this way – you don’t write things down for yourself, you know what you are doing, where to do it, and what happens when things go sideways. You’re writing it for the person who comes after you, who needs to figure all that goodness out. You’re writing it for the person on your team that isn’t here, that hasn’t…