This guy got it right (and did a great job illustrating it). My favourite test for any team that is struggling – ask yourself what kind of plane, with your current culture and team – you would end up creating. Would it get off the ground? Would it have a beverage cart? Could it land? It’s a fun exercise that gets the point of where you need to work across pretty quickly. The below comic…
If you’re stuck on what to do next, how long it’s going to take, whether it’s worth it to start, and on and on and on – all those great arguments that start with – “I can’t get enough done in that little bit of time…” Go to Google Timer, set it to 30 minutes, hide the browser, and work. After 5 minutes, you’ll forget it’s there. After 10 minutes, you’ll be frustrated you’re not…
If it was easy to find the dream job, reaching the apex of your career, batting 1.000. Everyone would be doing it. But everyone’s not doing it, so keep chasing. Because not everyone does.
It’s going to. Things will not go your way. Things will not work out. Things will go sideways. Your plans will falter. You have two options, Leave it be. Make new plans. New plans might falter too, but they are better than doing nothing.
Who cares? Everything gets off to a slow start. At least in someone else’s eyes. There are no slow starts, only never started.