Are the numbers you track the numbers that matter? Do they tell the story of a success, of your success, or of someone else’s success?
These days, measuring is very easy. You can track basically every progress, every little step, every achievement, every moment. But are those the numbers that take you in the direction you have chosen?
Sometimes we celebrate because we feel we are connecting the dots, but the final image was drawn by somebody else. Be mindful if that is the case.
Sometimes it does feel like the whole world is out to get you.
Negative things pile up and you just don’t seem you can find the additional energy to fight back.
Then, don’t fight back.
Let it be, soon something positive will start showing up in your life. Even better, move the target, be the one to put good into the world, and immediately the negative streak will dissolve.
It’s never so bad that you can’t do some good.
Somebody complimenting someone else is not taking anything away from you.
There’s enough goodwill in the world for everyone, it’s not a finite resource.
Somebody complimenting someone else is additive and should not be bothering you.
A big chunk of every job is managing expectations.
Of course, we want to say yes to everything. We want all the new customers and partners. We want to be perceived as competent, fast, and infallible. We want others to think that we do our work with ease even though our work is complex and uncertain. We want to project an aura of competence and confidence in any situation.
But if we do not manage expectations realistically, we will soon drown and take all those around us – colleagues, friends, family – with us.
The price is just too high.
The idea that by hiring more you will get more business is flawed.
The idea that by implementing more processes things will be running more smoothly is flawed.
The idea that by buying a new tool your employees will suddenly start to make sense is flawed.
The idea that by acquiring more customers your product will finally take off is flawed.
Hiring, processes, tools, and customer acquisition are fantastic ways to achieve goals, but they do not work in the same manner in all contexts. And particularly, they are not a cure for some fundamental flaws your organisation might have.
A general rule of thumb: if it works with ten people, you are ready to move to one hundred, one thousand, one million.
If it does not work with ten people, though, it’s time to go back to the drawing board and find a new way to make it work.
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