Authenticity is a choice.
It’s a choice between trying to have it all and pursuing only what matters. Between trying to please everyone and accepting that some – most perhaps – will not like the things you do. Between cutting corners and taking the path less traveled. Between bending others’ rules and setting your own rigid rules.
Authenticity is difficult not because people don’t know how to be authentic. It is difficult because in most cases choosing authenticity is inconvenient.
When you extend beyond your domain, you stretch past your comfort zone and find things you have never met before. It’s the way you learn, and it’s also the way you collapse under the weight of everything that is new.
Your purpose is your capstone.
There are many things that are potentially interesting, many opportunities that could change the course of a life, many ways you can go about business that might make your company the new hyper-celebrated unicorn.
Yet, jumping from one to the next will do you no good.
Give one thing the needed time to grow.
You don’t care!
It just seems as if you don’t care.
When you are late in the morning, I feel like you don’t care.
When you are late in the morning, I feel frustrated, as I get to question your commitment.
The four statements all say the same thing. The way this is done, though, is extremely different. Only the last one opens the listener to what comes next.
And since we too easily tend to project our feelings on others’ behaviours – by judging the things they do under the lens of our own situation -, we need to practice how to give better feedback.
Thanks Ed Batista for the reminder.
Never walk into a meeting in which you have a relevant role – people expect you to present, to coordinate, to moderate, to organise -, without some careful preparation.
When you don’t prepare, you will either be talking too much or too little, the audience will get bored, the conversation will get all over the place, arguments will be shallow and discussions pointless. And there’s not going to be any concrete outcome. If you are not prepared for a meeting in which you have a relevant role, just cancel it.
This is also a great way to keep the numbers of meetings to a minimum. None of us is paid to prepare for meetings.
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