What are you doing to manage your life and work risks related to COVID? How are you and your family coping with COVID? What keeps you up at night regarding COVID? What matters to you during the COVID crisis? Why? What three words describe your core values? Is your worka calling? What makes you happy? …
Now think about your risk tolerance for munchies grocery shopping through the lens of risk. So, you got the munchies. You want to go to the corner grocery to buy a bag of chips. Got it. Simple. Fast. Satisfying. Whoa. Now, this simple choice may be life and death threatening. Did you think of? “Prepare …
Your mind is working its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. Banksy – Street Artist A final thought for this section: healthy paranoia is a necessary condition for Working It. Paranoia is not a medicated condition. It’s not a psychiatric condition. …
Principles: A basic truth, law, or assumption; a basic source. American Heritage Dictionary My personal Working It rules distilled from many Work Lessons Earned are: Action spurs activity from which you can learn (take a risk). Do what you hate, first. You’re now a risk manager. Risks create opportunities in your life and work. 80% of life …
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. Elon Musk – CEO of SpaceX & Tesla I like work, career, and job lists. They distill experience. They are a quick read. There’s the ‘ah ha’ moment with things that move you. I can refer to them. Also, they’ve been …
Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives … or it’s simply not worth doing. Richard Branson – CEO of Virgin Omm … COVID is stressful and anxiety ridden. So, what to do? VUCANs medicate. VUCANs exercise. VUCANs go to therapy. VUCANs meditate. VUCANs do mindfulness. You’re always connected, look at the number of VUCANs who are driving …
‘Think in simples’ as my old master used to say – meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright – Architect When you’re working, ‘are you in the flow’? This is the same idea of ‘being in the zone’ in sports. The answer to …
Look at the resting face of the COVID VUCANs next to you. I’ll bet their facial expression is hangry (hungry + angry), plain angry, annoyed, irritated, contemptuous, or … How many faces are smiling? Few or any. It seems that VUCANs are negative and flat out grim about their life and work these days. Maybe it’s the COVID …
So, first a quick survey: What do you do when your BFF (Best Friend Forever) misses out on a high paying job, gets rejected by an elite school, loses a race, has an outbreak of pimples, etc. What do you think? How do you feel? What do you do? Do you commiserate with the person? …
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson – U.S. President It’s stunning the number of VUCANs who are plain anxious at work. Many suffer from frequent panic attacks. Daily stress was the norm pre COVID. So, why suffer through this. Again, it’s all about self …