Tag: bias

Small is your buddy

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Start from small.

A little thing that bothers you just a little. Something you want to change. Something you want to try. Something that’s been on your mind for a while.

Something small.

We often fail because we want to get to the end result right from the start.

We go on a diet, and we want the body we desire on week 1.

We start a blog, and we want an audience from day 1.

We land a new job, and we want to love it already on the first month.

We found a new company, and all we think about is to make it a unicorn.

Start from small instead. Break the big achievement down into small, if you need.

Small is your buddy.

What value?

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The main reason for your busyness is not a fast-paced business environment. It is not a growing company, the increased competition, a new role. It is not the incompetence of your managers or the inexperience of your peers.

The main reason for your busyness is your need to maintain control.

So the question is: what value do you deliver by being everywhere, at any time, on top everything?

The question touches you personally as well as professionally. And it relates to you, your firm, your loved ones, and your group

Be honest.

It’s natural

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Understand that it is normal to want to make things complex.

To want to add just one more feature. To want to make a clause for that particular case. To want to split the price to make it more flexible. To want to tell exactly how it works. To want to cover all the needs of all possible audiences. To want to factor in all the preferences of all possible stakeholders.

Understand that it is normal to want all of this.

And understand also that customers want simple. You yourself want simple when you are the customer.

Complexity is natural. It is also not what is going to make your business grow.

Keep options open

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In most circumstances, the sooner you get to solution-mode, the fewer the possibilities you will have considered.

When you do that with other people’s problems, you are preventing them from finding a way that fits with their lives and with which they are comfortable.

Keep options open, for as long as you can.

Under control

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One of the biggest and most painful mistakes you can make is to believe it is about you.

Things happen all the time, people have thoughts and feelings that make them behave one way or the other, words are said and opinions expressed more than we can appreciate. And it is not about you.

Making it personal is the opposite of committing. It is a way to hide, to postpone, to not do.

It is also a strong instict, as each one of us is the main character to their own story.

Just keep it under control.