The outstanding items are the list of little pins that aggravate you and drive you nuts. They are all the little things that hold you back from accomplishing your goal. They are the little UX bugs that pop up every time you sign in. They are the customer flow that still requires a manual step to be handled by your end user to work perfectly. How do you know whether you should push it or…
Does that sound bad? It’s not meant to. At its simplest – each day we move forward, we get older, we might regret what we had at a previous job, previous team, previous image of ourselves – and wish we could go back to it. That is how you feel today, right now. Fast forward five years from now and life will have changed once more, and invariably you are going to wish that you…
It sounds silly. It sounds overly simplistic. Yes, I take a step, yes I move forward, yes that gets me closer to my end goal. But sadly… We forget or we clap back that “it’s not that simple” and “that’s silly if I’m always taking two steps back”. Don’t lose sight of what you are headed towards because it might feel silly or simplistic, keep putting that foot back in front of the other and…
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.…