NonsenseAtWork

Look around you. Thinking as a rational, scientific Man clearly has shortcomings. As I have discovered with age.

Let’s face it. Business is boring. It’s the same nonsense over and over, day after day. It’s like driving the same car on the same road to the same destination at the same time every day. You must do it. And if you take your eye off what you’re doing, bad things can happen.

Forgiveness only works for you if you also put it down. Quickly. Make yourself lighter before the heaviness of anger and regret takes hold. History is already heavy. Don’t add to your history that which you need not remember.

If you have many motives, you are attracting mission creep before you even begin.

Ideas are creations set free by thinking. That’s why you cannot own ideas. You just don’t know where they came from. And you don't know where they are going next.

The more you try to explain using multiple motivations, the more you will sound as if you are defending your decision. Or worse, that you are still convincing... yourself.

Think of it as zero-based daily living. Question everything you do and every tool you use. Does it still make sense? Does it still add value? Why are you doing it? Why are you doing it this way?

Sometimes we are aware of people droning on. And sometimes we focus on what they say. But too often we treat hearing and listening as the same and discount the fact that there is a practical difference between the two.

Here are a few common phrases that will help you remember the times when over-confidence got the better of you or your team.

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