A Quick Trick For Having More Energy And Staying Motivated
You have no energy or motivation?
“I’m exhausted.”“I don’t know how you have so much energy.”“You’re just a person who is motivated, I’m not.”
I hear this all the time.
Let me explain where it comes from.It’s not that you have no energy to exercise. You have no energy BECAUSE you don’t exercise.It’s not that you have no motivation.It’s that you haven’t done anything meaningful that sparks motivation.
2 Minute Action
Prove me wrong.Go scrape the ice off of someone’s car.Go for a run.Go tell someone that they’re doing a great job and you noticed.Do this and feel how it impacts you.I guarantee you will feel more energized to make a difference in your day.Action creates energy.And that first act of the day is up to you.
The Strange Lesson My Whiteboard Taught Me
I walked into my office today and saw some brainstorming I had done over a week ago.It was all over my whiteboard.
It was a map that helped me see some of the dependencies and workflows in my team—visibility here is critical for making improvements.
But then I realized that if I wiped it away to make room for the new problem I needed to solve right then, I would lose a lot of my progress.Sure I can take a photo, but those so easily get tucked away into the bottomless digital pile.It’s so easy to do some of the work without doing all of it. If you don’t do all of it, it’s easy to waste all the work you did do.
And that’s the lesson.
You will develop an incredible amount of work waste unless you’re careful not to do some of the work without doing all of it.You will move faster if your work progress is documented or if a decision is made at the end of the time you’ve set aside to work.
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Get all of your “to-dos” into a single pile. Pull them all in from everywhere you keep them.Your notepad. Your inbox. Your sticky notes.Get them all in a list and prioritize them. Each one must fight for its life to stay on the list.You are much less likely to have work waste when you have a single place to store tasks and review projects.Nothing gets lost.The work you’ve done so far gets recorded in the same place as everything’s else.
The Glue That Keeps High-Performance Teams Together
Culture is not the ping-pong table.Culture is not the Keurig.Culture is not the ability to hang out with the people on your team after work.
Somehow, this is what many people think.
Culture is “Do you believe what I believe?”Culture is the alignment of core values.Culture is how we treat each other when it gets hard.
This is the glue that makes great teams excel.
No team can withstand the barometric pressure at the altitude of high-performance without having the trust and support of good culture.People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad managers.
2 Minute Action
Who is someone you haven’t connected with deeply in a while?Who is someone that maybe is on the outskirts of your team and is waiting to be included?Take 2 minutes to say “hi,” today. Ask them about something they are interested in. Make sure you don’t walk away without them knowing you care about them.That’s culture.Recognizing others and making people around you know that you value them.