The World is not in lack of talent or great ideas. It is in lack of commitment.
Commitment to show up even when there’s no one cheering. Commitment to dedicate your attention to one thing only. Commitment to pursue your purpose in face of adversity. Commitment to do the work even after a series of bad days. Commitment to self and mutual understanding. Commitment to not having an opinion on every frivolous thing.
This is not a lecture, it is rather an awakening.
Let’s get to it.
Is your company about business or about people?
Of course, the former is a given and the latter is claimed by the majority. Yet decisions and behaviour, particularly in difficult moments, tip the scale.
Another way to put the question would be the following.
In the past few weeks, have you asked your people to do more or have you offered to do more for your people?
The fact is, when you offer to do more for those around you it is very likely you’ll end up getting more in return.
We are often puzzled by success, as in most of the cases we do average work and expect outcomes to be average at best.
And so, when something extraordinary happens, we invest time in trying to figure out what is the reason, what have we done this time we have not done before, what is the difference. We do this because we’d like to replicate such unexpected success, make it the norm, the future average.
The truth is, most of this type of success is due to a weird combination of factors that we often call luck.
So if you really want to craft your success, at least do it before it happens. Build a practice, be consistent and relentless, use common sense and reiterate. All these things tend to get lost when we look back at success, as we desperately want to focus on that tiny little detail that changed it all (it did not, of course).
Figuring out where you want to go is just as important as understanding what you have to leverage to get there.
If you set goals for yourself (or your team) that are not supported by the resources you have available, you are just making it easier to hit the head against the wall.
The fourth blog post.
The second month in an important project.
The tenth episode of your podcast.
The sixth year in your wedding.
The eleventh year of being a parent.
The fifth exam at the university.
The twentieth cover letter you customise.
The third year in your job.
That’s where the real challenge lies.
Getting started takes mindset and effort, but the adrenaline of “new” might make up for a lack in both. It’s when you have to keep going with no cheers at every turn that things get tough.
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