To be continued

If you haven’t started earlier, and you are rushing into finding a good resolution for 2022, be mindful that success is not achieved in one magical night.

Continuing with the good that you are doing is a great way to start the new year.

You’ve got this!

Resentment

What good does your resentment do?

Perhaps you have been treated unfairly. Perhaps you did truly deserve that promotion. Perhaps that person in your team is really after you. Perhaps everyone should really buy into your idea. Perhaps you do deserve more.

And what good does it do to act up because of that? How closer does that take you to your objectives?

Resentment is bad not because others might not deserve it – they usually don’t. Resentment is bad because it is not efficient.

The moment you feel it, do acknowledge it, do talk about it, and then do move on.

Own your meetings

When you send an invite for a meeting, you make two promises to those invited.

  1. You promise that you will be respecting the timing of the meeting – the time the meeting will start, the time allocated to the different items in the agenda, the time the meeting is supposed to end.
  2. You promise that you will be prepared to deliver on the agenda, or that those presenting/discussing will have the information they need to prepare to deliver on the agenda.

Many meetings fail because they are considered a way to come together and express opinions, thoughts, ideas. Some might be, but even in that case it is a responsibility of the organizer to manage a right pace to the conversation, to send out information that can help drive the conversation, and in general to be the owner of the conversation.

If there is one gift you feel like giving to your colleagues in 2022, let it be this one.

Own your own meetings.

Insecurity

We lash out at people, we judge, we confine, we define, we spend most of our days commenting and evaluating what others do. And the truth is, we do not know any better.

It is perhaps our insecurity that makes us feel so certain when it comes to others.

Make a resolution for today

If you are approaching the end of the year with some resolutions you wish to make, here is a tip that’s going to save you some hassle.

Start today.

There is no magical power in the beginning of a new year, no cleaner slate, to strength or power.

Start earlier instead, don’t let the resolution go stale in your mind, don’t lose the effect of the novelty, don’t let it sink before it lifts you.

Start today.