If you want to change something you deeply care about, you ought to be able to love what’s good in it.
The bad is going to kill your motivation before it gets better, so it’s important to reinforce the reason why you are in it.
Tag: entrepreneurship
Overcompensating
It’s tempting to set up a general rule to avoid a nuisance that is due to a few negative experiences. The problem is that the rule does not consider the vast majority of experiences that are positive, and therefore it ends up fixing an issue that, in most cases, is not an issue.
That’s the case of the employer setting up very rigid working hours because two people (out of tens or hundreds of employees) usually start working after lunch. What happens the next an employee is 10 minutes late? What if it’s their first time?
Overcompensating is rarely a good idea.
No need to be alone
Find that person who is always supporting, who cheers for you no matter what, who wants your success more than their own, who is critical with kindness, whom you genuinely enjoy talking to.
And once you have found them, do not fear asking for their help.
There’s no need to be alone in your journey.
The superior companion
If you fall in love with an outcome, you will never notice that the world around you is moving, that the context is ever changing, and that the outcome, in the end, does not provide that sense of reward you had anticipated.
If instead you fall in love with the journey, you are in the present, here and now. You see the changes, you notice the details, you are awake and ready, you have a place to fall back to when the unexpected becomes reality.
The journey is just a superior companion.
Audit and reset
When you start something new, it is difficult to anticipate where that will be going.
Perhaps you buy a tool, you set up a process, you hire a few people, you add a contacts field in your CRM, and then after one or two years you find yourself in a completely different situation, and the thing that used to work (kind of) now clearly does not work anymore.
The problem though starts when you avoid auditing and resetting, and instead add more on top of what is not working. Another version of the tool, more people, a new step in the process, one more contacts field in the CRM.
Before you start adding, be sure to audit and reset.
It takes time, it might feel like a failure, and it’s not always pleasant. But that’s how you make the most out of what you will decide to bring in next.
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