Working Toward Well-being and Camaraderie

“Warm and fuzzy” do not yield well-being and camaraderie. If anything, they’re the resulting symptoms.

Self-reverence and reverence for others is a predicate to an effective work environment. Without the two, the workplace becomes cold and thorny.

Feed’forward’

We welcome feedback because of our drive to learn.

We can turbo-charge this drive by flipping feed’back’ on its head to seek feed’foward’.

• Step 1: Choose 3 areas to improve on
• Step 2: Pick three people to give you feedforward
• Step 3: Set up a 30-minute meeting with each person you’d like feedforward from, and ask these three simple yet powerful questions:
  • “If I were better at [[the area I want to improve in]], what would you see me doing differently than I’m doing now? What would you hear me talking about? What would others tell you I was doing differently?”
  • “What else?”
  • “What advice do you have for me to improve?”

Requirement For Character, Passion, and Skill

More work does not always require more time. As a matter of fact, the inverse can be true depending on who’s doing it.

Your team members’ level of character, passion, and skill all contribute to how long it takes to get it done.

Team members of high character running the project about which they are passionate can get it done quickly and still have time for an afternoon nap. Conversely, even a single member who is deceitful, inept, or uninterested will create more work than anyone can handle.

An Outlook of Devotion

How we do anything is how we do everything.

Our outlook determines how we do anything.

Building Trust

We don’t make money when we sell it.

We make money when we help someone make a purchase decision.

Anticipate the Dip

Progress is not linear, but rather shaped like a J curve. Wait for the dip. When it arrives, tell it: ‘there you are…I’ve been waiting for you.’

Most give up before things turn around, but you know better.

Playing the Long Game

We’re all playing the long game.

Raise your goal by raising your time horizon and embracing ‘good enough’ over perfection in the short-term.

Getting Back Up

We gain little by trying to be the person who never makes mistakes.

We keep growing by trying to be the person who learns from our mistakes.

Every mistake is an opportunity: falling down is not failure, but staying down is.

Less Is More

No need to bulk it up. We need less than we think.

Only fill up 75% of the available space. Empty is beautiful.

Movement

Today we get a chance to prove once and for all that the playground belongs to us. All of us. We’ve sat out of bounds for too long.

Nothing is as it was. Nor should it be.