If you have knowledge, share it.
If you have an idea, share it.
If you have a project, share it.
If you learned something, share it.
If you plan something, share it.
If you have a purpose, share it.
If you have experience, share it.
It is the best way to broaden your perspective and actually get things done.
Work leaks into your personal life, news and preoccupations leak into your personal life, continuous demands of attention leak into your personal life.
And to some extent, that is fine.
At some point though, that becomes untenable, and that is precisely what you need to be aware of. When does that happen? How does that manifest? What can you do about it*?
Lacking a system that keeps this in check means gradually losing track of yourself, your thoughts, your strengths, your limits.
No work, preoccupation, demand can be tackled if that happens.
* I have recently started keeping two distinct apps for emails, one for personal emails (that I have heavily cleaned and optimized) and one for work emails. If you tend to drift to work stuff in your free time, you might give this a try.
The faster way for you to build a story is to record what you do.
Do it daily and consistently, and after a while, as you look back, you will find threads that already are the seed of a narrative. Put them together, water them, double down on recording, and you have everything you need to stand out from the masses.
The best time to start doing this was yesterday. The second best time is today.
Hard work, they say, will lead you to success.
But hard work is not working 14 hours a day, weekends included, allowing yourself little sleep, few acquaintances, overworking your team members, writing three paragraphs when one would be enough, replying to all incoming emails within minutes, taking more tasks than you can handle because a promotion is in the air, eating crap because you have no time, a constant status of busyness.
We should stretch the idea of hard work along time and understand that hard work is consistency, determination, showing up with no regard for the reward. Hard work is long term.
Hard work is practice.
Life is not about avoiding problems, for the simple reason that problems, challenges, difficulties are an intrinsic part of life itself.
Life is more about identifying problems and finding the courage to stand right in front of them saying: “I will get past you”. And it is true both for the problems that surround us and for those who are within ourselves.
By the way, the better we are at dealing with the latter, the stronger and more effective we are when we tackle the former.
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