We had snow yesterday. Tons of it. The type of snowstorm where you finish shoveling only to realize you need to go again to get it all cleaned up. The type of day where you can shovel, eat, sleep. Everything is covered in a massive blanket. It’s awesome. If only because something so wild and crazy, changes everything you were thinking about, your entire focus, what you might have been worrying about in life to…
Every goal you have has many little steps. The first ones will always be the toughest because you have so many more of them in front of you. So many more of them you haven’t seen or don’t know where they are going to end up. All you can do is take that first step, check if you’re on the right path, and take the next one – trusting that you’re on the right path…
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…