If someone comes to you with a critical remark on something you did, and instead of starting with “what I meant was”, you are capable to start with “I had not thought about that”, you are on the path to becoming a more aware person.
And awareness – of yourself and of others – is where everything starts.
If you manage a company, a team, a project, the most you can do is managing the inputs and monitor the outcomes.
Too much time is wasted, too many promises broken, in the attempt to manage the outcomes. Outcomes are out of anybody’s control. Even those who have already succeeded in the field you are trying to master cannot promise outcomes.
And so, instead:
That’s how you keep you and your team sane.
Honesty is the possibility to take a heavy weight off your mind. When you are honest about something, that thing does not clutter your thinking anymore, it no longer makes you wonder, it makes space for other things.
Just be mindful of whether that weight can be carried by the other person.
A miss can be a failure.
Or it can be a step towards success.
You decide.
We are quick to forget where we have been. The fears we’ve had, the pain we suffered, the challenges we had to face, the corners we had to cut.
And in that tiny space between where we were and where we are now we build up the judgement for those who have yet to complete their journey.
If only we could extend a helping hand instead.
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