It’s your turn.
There’s no need for someone to tell you it is, no need to wait for the perfect situation, no need to take that training or listen to that podcast before you get to it.
It’s your turn, your turn is now.
You own this.
Tag: change
Train your consistency muscles
Consistency is difficult.
Because consistency requires three difficult choices.
- Old over new. Consistency is about doing more of what you have already done instead of going out and pursue whatever is shining.
- Long-term over short-term. Consistency delivers results in the end and you can’t be expecting easy and temporary wins.
- Rigour over laziness. Consistency means that you will not take the easy way out, no matter how fascinating that could look.
The good thing is, you can train your consistency muscles starting from the small things, the daily habits that might seem insignificant at first.
Pay attention as you get to implement those.
How does it feel?
Follow through
The difficult part is not taking a decision. The difficult part is to follow through with the decision.
That’s why we end up in meetings to discuss the same things over and over again, to reassess, to reconsider, to go around the table. That’s why we feel stuck, incapable of progress, lacking development and purpose. And that’s why we feel frustrated, we frustrate others, and we eventually drift away in the wrong direction.
The greatest invention
Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero. A lie becomes the truth.
Foundation, season 1 episode 9
You probably have no interest in writing or controlling history, but you should be invested in managing your own narrative. Who you are, what you stand for, what version of you is in your future, what goals will take you there, what people will you have closeby, what decisions you are making every day.
It’s easy to delegate all of this to others.
Be the right scribe to your very own history.
Reality is in the middle
Two sure ways to get stuck.
- Blaming it all on the others.
- Blaming it all on yourself.
Reality is always somewhere in the middle. The only way to move forward to find the new beginning is to acknowledge that others are not out to get you, and that you are not that bad after all.
There’s always a way.
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