No one is born with gifts, no deity has touched someone with their heavenly blessings.
There is skills and hard work. The hard work turns those skills into uncommonly high competency which people confuse for gifts.
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What do you want – Competency or Confidence?
Confidence without competency is fool-hardy. Competency without confidence is a waste.
Be Professional
To ‘be professional’ usually means taking abuse from someone above you that can’t regulate their emotions.
Only You Will Know
Your view on the world is unique and singular. What you think is imperfect might be perfect to someone else. And the great thing is you don’t get to decide what they think so put your work out there.
Play Better Games
the childish things behind and enter a world of seriousness. How does this make sense?
Burn Your Boat
207 BCE – there is vicious fighting in China when the Qin dynasty is losing its grip on power. The rebel forces, led by Xiang Yu of the Chu’s is fighting in the Battle of Julu against the much larger Qin. Yu orders his forces to burn their boats. He removed their option to fallContinue reading “Burn Your Boat”
Thinking Clean
Thinking cleanly means reducing complexity. Focusing on the actual challenge in front of you. Not conflating ideas or thoughts.
Changing Choices
Change is a scary part of life and there are many reasons why people don’t want to change.
Feel The Fear : Part 2 (Leadership)
Fear will quickly and quietly ruin your teams confidence and efficiency.
Feel the Fear
Trying to figure out who I am I have had to confront my fears about why I do what I do and it has lead me to understand that fear is confronting the death of the my former identity.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 