When your mind goes to a bad place, focusing on all negative things, feeling as if every event is against you. Try to name one thing you are genuinely grateful for, or happy for. Then continue working on that list.
It might prove challenging at first, yet it works.
What we perceive is often not what is happening. We need to train to make the distinction.
What good does your resentment do?
Perhaps you have been treated unfairly. Perhaps you did truly deserve that promotion. Perhaps that person in your team is really after you. Perhaps everyone should really buy into your idea. Perhaps you do deserve more.
And what good does it do to act up because of that? How closer does that take you to your objectives?
Resentment is bad not because others might not deserve it – they usually don’t. Resentment is bad because it is not efficient.
The moment you feel it, do acknowledge it, do talk about it, and then do move on.
One of the things that will make you stand out most in business (and not only) is to close the circle on your promises.
This is true for individual contributors, teams, departments, and organizations as a whole.
If you promise something that you know you can’t deliver, or that you consistently don’t deliver over a period of time, the promise is most likely a way for you to get out of a difficult conversation, an awkward moment, a temporary discomfort.
It is not worth it.
Say only what you know you’ll do. And if you end up not doing it, give a reason and follow up.
When you meet your commitments, you build trust, gain confidence — look, you really can do it! — and grow the kind of backbone needed to say no when you truly can’t take something on.
Whitney Johnson, You Have to Stop Canceling and Rescheduling Things. Really.
When plans fail, it might be because you have not carefully considered the initial situation.
Leaps happen, but it is much more common to have things develop slowly, thanks to incremental and non-linear progresses.
And so, a great way to start a plan is to take a careful look at where you start from. What resources you have available. What people around you want. What initial wins you can get to start momentum. What it is that you can realistically achieve without changing most of what is going on.
You might know where you want it all to end, but if you start there, that is little more than wishful thinking. Taking little steps is the surest way to achieve success.
Merry Christmas.
There are two types of company.
One starts with values and sees revenue as a sort of by-product of carefully applying values in the things they do every day, whether somebody is watching or not.
One starts with revenue and sees values as an ideal that will be possible to transform into action only after reaching a certain level of revenue/success.
There is nothing inherently good or bad in one or the other, but they represent two profoundly different ways of doing things.
As a founder, you need to know what type of company you want to build and what type of people you want to work with.
As a jobseeker, you need to know in which type of company you perform better and you feel better.
Go about it intentionally. There is nothing worst than finding yourself in the wrong group.
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