Find the strength to cherish both the highs and the lows. One would not be possible without the other, and they both have lessons to teach about who you are.
Tag: fear
Addressing change
No matter what the current situation is, nobody likes change.
Your unique and innovative idea will be pointless if you fail to address this basic human fact.
Boxes
Most companies want employees to not work in silos. And then, they organise their work in little, hierarchical boxes.
They split the workforce in departments. They assign managers and middle-managers to each of them. They give them goals and agendas and salaries and development plans that are unique. And they get mad because Product doesn’t talk to Sales, because what Marketing promotes is not the story that Customer Success tells, because the Leadership Team meetings are just a battle for budget and recognition, and because their Customers are sick of waiting for the promised improvement.
So, the opportunity for you is to become the person who looks at problems horizontally. To learn about others priorities and spot lateral developments. To become the glue that delivers and the light that shines on colleagues.
If you’ll just stick to your box, you’ll be part of the problem, not the indispensable solution.
What is wrong?
How many of the things we call our flaws, of the traits we don’t like about us, of the behaviors we want to hide, are such because we are in the wrong situation?
Are we really afraid of speaking in front of an audience, or is it because we have always spoken in front of the wrong audience?
Should we call ourselves temperamental, or is it because nobody has ever took a minute to explain what was happening?
Do we really reject close relationships, or is it because the people we have been close to have hurt us deeply?
Are you wrong, or is the situation wrong?
Should you change yourself, or should you change the people you are with, the things you are doing, the place you call home?
Always work on yourself.
And figuring out what is wrong is part of the process.
Inescapable
You might be able to achieve something average by putting in some average work. But to achieve something extraordinary you need to step out of your comfort zone. And that means you will feel discomfort, uneasiness, resistance, friction, awkwardness, and a whole lot of other not so pleasant things.
“Easy” and “talent” are stories sold by those who have already made it – to explain the unexplainable – or by those who have watched others make it – to keep their own chances up.
If you are in the process instead, you know that the simple rule is true and inescapable.
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