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Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.

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  • have limited proactivity

    When you work in a fast environment it’s key to be proactive, to anticipate problems and issues. It’s common knowledge and there is also some kind of expectation about proactivity.

    Proactivity is good, because it avoids issues.

    But there is a limit to your proactivity and that limit is based on time, energy and your mind.
    If you are proactive about too many things, about issues and problems that are far from the place you work on, then as with willpower, you’ll end up in a burnout.

    You have to learn when to limit proactivity. When the effort is not worth it, when you can’t benefit from the result in any way, when the effort is too much and you’ll end up damaging your actual interests.

    Those are the moments when you should think twice before being proactive.
    And beware of ego, because “not caring” it’s quite easy to do, but in this case we’re not talking about avoiding things because you don’t feel to, but avoiding the ones that will damage you in the long run.

  • how come we complain?

    I have some unhappy moments at work, why? I think the whole problem lies in expectation vs reality.

    You had expectation + other people ignited your expectations, but reality shows a different path.

    It’s like the difference between some words and a kept promise. The first ones aren’t real, the second is.
    And in all of this there’s no culprit outside ego.

    If you didn’t have the intelligence to understand that your expectations won’t match reality, then it’s your problem to solve.
    But then again it’s also ok to change if a work can’t fulfill your needs, in this case an emotional and mastery need.

    A need to do more, to help people.
    When a work doesn’t suits us anymore we feel helpless, caged, inside a system we aren’t able to change.

  • quality is in everywhere

    Quality is from the beginning to the end of anything. A project, a person, a car.

    You can clearly see when a person follows a higher quality, you see it in the way he treats others, the way he/she acts and behave.

    It’s something you have in that you take out, and it’s amazing yet difficult.

  • don’t give us pressure

    There are many ways to operate in a business. Some of them ask you to make a choice about the person you want to be.

    You can leave people free for their choice or not. Many tend to “control” the behaviour because it give us the illusionary idea that we have power on them, but if the final choice doesn’t make them happy, what are we doing that for? Money? It’s not enough.

    That choice is a choice you won’t escape easily. So be well prepared when you’re at that turn.

  • respect the place you live in

    It’s easy to badmouth something or someone, it’s a fast and quick way with no consequences, until you hurt someone or something goes bad.

    The reason? Badmouthing doesn’t stop there. It grows inside.