The moment you can accept that others think differently, that things happen no matter what you want or what you do, that nobody out there sees you as someone intrinsically deserving praise or criticism, that’s the moment when you can find peace of mind and set to achieve your goals.
The longer you can sustain that acceptance, the better of you will be.
What’s keeping you from achieving more, being more motivated, completing that task or project?
Each one of us will have their own answer, but in an organisation, the most common answer must be meetings.
Meetings without an agenda and a list of actions to follow up with.
Meetings that are updates.
Meetings that should have been an email or a Slack message.
Meetings to give feedback on a piece of work you have never seen before.
Meetings that are workshops that aim at fixing a problem with participants who have no idea what the problem is, let alone the skill set to fix it.
If you are a manager of people, your first responsibility should be to rid their calendars of meetings.
You meet a lot of people, get acquainted with some of them, befriend a few, date some, and marry one.
You apply to loads of jobs, interview for some of them, get to the last stage with a few, get two or three offers, and accept one.
You get to try a lot of different things, enjoy some of them, succeed at a few, and master one.
You talk to a wide audience, get through to some of it, really resonate with a few, and influence one.
Many activities in life work like a funnel.
And when you get to the one, that’s just the time when it’s time to start all over again.
If you can’t live with pain. If you can’t live with boredom. If you can’t live with failure and disappointment. If you can’t live with repetition and rejection.
Then you will not be ready to embrace the opposite.
You will not be ready to embrace life at all.
When a dream fades, there are two types of pain to deal with.
One comes from the loss of the dream itself.
One comes from the lack of space – energy, time, emotions, thoughts – needed for another dream to come replace the first one.
I find the second one more difficult to figure out and deal with.
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