Back in your days, things were certainly different. But I promise you, any judgement you are giving on 30-40-50 years before in your life is probably inaccurate, biased, and positively or negatively exaggerated.
It’s a good base to make a joke, not a good one to make a decision.
There’s too much talk about improvement and growth and too little talk about acceptance and contentment.
Wanting to be better, wanting to have more, wanting to learn and move forward, these are all very commendable aspirations. But when they get applied to every situation and when we look at them in the shortest possible amount of time, they are just going to eat us.
Life is not that long, and we need to find a way to be OK with what we have, with who we are.
You can set rules for the best case scenario or you can set rules for the worst case scenario.
When you use the best case scenario as a basis, you trust that things will progress well, that people are trustworthy, that nothing terrible or horrible will happen, that “bad” is a situation that can still be managed without much pain.
When you use the worst case scenario as a basis, you look at what will go wrong, at those who will betray you or not keep their part of the deal, at principles that need to be protected, at a “good” situation that is very difficult to digest.
Start the day with something that motivates you, something you can be proud of, something that is valuable.
A bad way to start the day is by checking emails and instant messages, and getting caught in answering each one of them (as well as the new ones as they come in).
A good way to start the day is by shutting down email and instant messages app, and writing that blog post that’s been on your backlog for weeks.
A bad way to start the day is with a meeting.
A good way to start the day is by dedicating your full attention to that deliverable that is waiting for your feedback.
A bad way to start the day is by checking social media accounts and a few potentially interesting websites.
A good way to start the day is by going offline and drafting the full content calendar for next quarter.
Busy is the bane.
And sometimes, you are busy. So much so that being busy becomes a description of your permanent self, more than a temporary state.
To get out of it, make a list of the things that are making you busy. And ask yourself two questions.
Once you unlock that conversation with yourself, you are ready to start setting boundaries and delegating.
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