Tag: relationships

No excuse

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By participating in that head-to-head discussion on Twitter, I have changed minds and inspired hundreds of people.

Every time I like an Instagram post, I am closer to feeling fully accomplished.

A turning point in my life was that time I watched all of the YouTube videos by that influencer in one sit.

The constant flux of notifications I get on my mobile throughout the day exponentially improves the quality of my work.

said no one ever

By all means, use your free time however you prefer.

And make sure when it’s over, it is really over.

There’s no excuse nowadays to not go about finding and fulfilling your purpose. Yet, never before have so little people been committed to do just that.

Go make the change you are here to make.

Behind change

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What moves the change you seek to make?

Anger, frustration, revenge, self-affirmation, fear. It is human to feel all that. Yet, while they are great fire to start the fuse, it’s better to move past them as the explosion approaches, else they will spread.

Empathy, kindness, joy, selflessness, care. They are much slower to burn, more complicated to find and express. Yet, when they reach the core, that’s the type of enthusiasm that sticks and scales.

There will never be enough of that.

Unconditional trust

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When you treat people as if they are going to cheat or take advantage of you, one of two things is going to happen.

Either they will cheat and take advantage of you – if only because that’s what you will read in their behaviour, no matter what they actually do -, or they will stay clear of you and look for somebody who sees in them more positive potential.

Build a system based on unconditional trust, instead, and take specific and appropriately directed actions the few times trust will be put on the line. You’ll be surprised with how much time you and people around you will save, and how much more inspired and inspiring the whole environment will be.

Personal development

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If you want your people to develop, participate in trainings, attend events related to their field, network with peers and exchange ideas, just give them a clear budget (time and money) and some broad rules. Then let them choose how to go about it, approve by default and sponsor sessions to share their learnings with the rest of the team.

If you don’t want that instead, give them a process to follow, some paperwork to do and managerial discretion.

Or even better, tell them their development is not at the top of your agenda.

The two options

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Are you building thought leadership or are you looking for leads?

It might seem like it’s just a marketing question, but it is actually much more than that.

Are you establishing deep connections or are you greeting everybody and move on?

Are you here to make a change or to share your numbers?

Are you interested in telling a story or in surfacing shortcuts?

Are you creating or copy-pasting?

And the one that I personally prefer.

Are you for quality or quantity?

Certainly, the two can be simultaneously present. And yet, you can’t go all in on both. Eventually one will prevail, projecting your work in very different directions.

Also, the more you stick with one the more difficult it will be to move onto the other. But this is more true when the movement is from leads to thought leadership. So, the idea that “we are going to do quality work when X and Y will happen” is a mirage.

I bet you already knew that.