Category: culture

Faith in success

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Success – however you define it, in whatever field you are pursuing it – is a matter of faith.

Faith that what you are doing today is going to bear fruits. Faith that despite not seeing any sudden improvement, change is happening in small increments every single day. Faith that even failure is important. Faith that the good work you are putting out there is worth it, for you and for the people you serve.

Always believe in the method and apply it systematically.

That’s what faith in success looks like.

Scripts

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The best way to build a relationship with others is to not treat them as if they were playing a support role in your masterpiece script.

Like the entrepreneur who can’t figure out why employees don’t care as much as they do. Or the manager who gets mad when someone resigns for a better position. Or the friend you don’t hear from anymore because you moved to the neighbouring city. Or the parent who can’t accept the fact their kids are taking a path they had never imagined for themselves.

Everyone has their own script they are working on, and when two people come together to co-author some parts of theirs, it’s a blessing, not an obligation.

We tend to forget that very easily.

Authenticity

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Authenticity is a choice.

It’s a choice between trying to have it all and pursuing only what matters. Between trying to please everyone and accepting that some – most perhaps – will not like the things you do. Between cutting corners and taking the path less traveled. Between bending others’ rules and setting your own rigid rules.

Authenticity is difficult not because people don’t know how to be authentic. It is difficult because in most cases choosing authenticity is inconvenient.

Time to grow

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There are many things that are potentially interesting, many opportunities that could change the course of a life, many ways you can go about business that might make your company the new hyper-celebrated unicorn.

Yet, jumping from one to the next will do you no good.

Give one thing the needed time to grow.

Better feedback

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You don’t care!

It just seems as if you don’t care.

When you are late in the morning, I feel like you don’t care.

When you are late in the morning, I feel frustrated, as I get to question your commitment.

The four statements all say the same thing. The way this is done, though, is extremely different. Only the last one opens the listener to what comes next.

And since we too easily tend to project our feelings on others’ behaviours – by judging the things they do under the lens of our own situation -, we need to practice how to give better feedback.

Thanks Ed Batista for the reminder.