Being humble is a great way to go about tackling a new challenge.
Humble keeps you grounded (the word actually comes from latin humus, that means earth), and it frees you from the need of having all the answers. When you are humble, you have time to explore, to audit, to find out, and eventually to make up your mind with a new set of information you wouldn’t have otherwise had.
Fear means you care.
Fear means you will think twice.
Fear means long-term matters to you.
Fear means you are learning.
Fear means you are not alone.
Fear is good, and when you accept it in your life, name it, verbalize it, it is a lot less scary than you think.
Why are you so involved in this quarrel?
It is an honest question to ask yourself, particularly when things stall and no progress is made towards a resolution.
More often than not, we discuss to feed our ego.
Of course, we believe our perspective is the right one (the people we are discussing with do believe theirs is too). But deep down, we do not know. And experience should tell us that minimum variations to a plan, to a campaign, to a project, do not return major fluctuations in the outcome under most circumstances.
So, why are you so involved in this quarrel?
Consider the scenario in which you win, and see if the impact on the context you are seeking to affect would be bigger than the time, the energy, the foregone opportunities you are investing right now.
Making a step back and giving way is probably the most productive thing you can do. That’s a way to cultivate the focus you need to change the world.
Asking others to do better, to be better is missing perspective.
A more productive approach would be enquiring about what you can do to enable them to do better, to be better. And follow up with what is needed.
An even more productive approach would be to figure out how you can do better, be better. And by simply doing that, make those around you shine brighter, achieve more, reach higher.
Finally, we could take it on our own to change the environment and the rules of the game so that what others are doing or the way they are would already be better.
When we ask others to do better, to be better we sort of take our own responsibility out of the picture. Yet, it feels to me there’s quite a lot we can do to achieve exactly the better we want others to achieve.
.. is not always newsworthy.
After you have landed that job you so much wanted, often the most exciting part is showing up every day to do your best.
When you make a resolution to change an unhealthy habit, most of the time peak adrenaline is in the moment you make up your mind, and it’s followed by days, weeks, months of sticking to it.
Decorating your new apartment might give you a kick, and then you’ll have to navigate the day after day of your life inside it, uneventful for the most part.
It’s not always easy to be at ease in the average routine, yet that’s what most of our lives are made of. If you want to be an agent of change, that’s a lesson better learned fast.
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