Can you commit?

Daily small habits are harder than you imagine but harder than you think. 

Reading 20 pages of a book a day. Every day.

Workout 15 minutes a day. Every day.

Save USD50 every month till you retire.

Write every day.

The rewards depending on what you are seeking is sometimes immeasurable.

What’s easy?

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Do you overestimate big steps?

Learning to make good small decisions is a skill. Like any skill, it takes hard work and practice. It takes consistency to keep making the right small choices. These choices eventually accumulate to big results even though they do not show it each time you make them. Over time they compound and when the time is right, it ripens. Just because it doesn’t happen now doesn’t mean you are not on the right track. It’s just not the right time. Each correct decision puts you in better stead for the big results later.

Health, fitness, finances, career, relationships and yeah…. branding too.

Do you underestimate small steps?

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What did you say?

Everyone can have an opinion. Whether an opinion is a valuable one depends on the person’s intellectual capability, experience, core competence and importantly her intellectual curiosity when it comes to her core competence. Meaning, she must be hardworking to research and do her homework on seminal work in the field, long held principles and critically, knowledge in the field that perhaps does not work or is no longer valid in order to include new ones. These are the bare minimum in order to have a valuable opinion on a topic.

Does your opinion have value?

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Are you intimidated?

The incompetent jerk in your office that wreak havoc in your workplace and intimidates people typically does these in meetings.

Speaks loudly. Speaking loudly shows their aggression and hides their own inferiority complex. They need this not just to intimidate you, they do this to bolster themselves too.

Speaks fast. Perhaps they are sub-consciously nervous or maybe they think by speaking fast people will be able to comprehend them less.

Asks a lot of irrelevant questions. These questions are often unrelated to the issue or topic. Typically, questions that are intended as ad hominem.

Talk a lot. Watch closely these talks are not related to the core issue. They circle around the core issue giving the mirage that it is the issue. One reason why meetings with them usually takes longer than usual.

Management soundbites and claptrap. What they say in meetings (and out of meetings too) are filled with management soundbites and claptrap that means nothing when you strip these words away. They sound impressive to the ignorant and inexperienced but fail to make a dent in the realm of productivity as far as meetings are concerned.

Parroting. Either repeating or paraphrasing what others say in a meeting but they don’t understand what they are saying themselves and have not added anything valuable into the meeting.

Know all. They speak like they are the expert on many subject-matters even though it is merely anecdotal, hearsay and nowhere near the truth nor substantiated. Nonetheless, they are firmly insistent and convicted that it is the truth. And even earnestly swears it's the truth.

Personal stories. These personal stories happen before a meeting. Most often how bad their day is, how horrendous the traffic is getting to the venue, how they had a bad morning, anything along those lines. 

One way you can neutralize them is to keep quiet most of the time in meetings. Choose the right time to talk. Often waiting till he has stopped talking or when others have had their unproductive arguments with them. Write down no more than 3 points you want to counter them on. Speak slowly, sternly and into their eyes and asks for an answer to the few points you want. It works better when you are a senior but it can work even if you are a junior. Anyway, you will need the practice since these incompetent jerks are plenty in the corporate world.

What do you say?

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Why write?

I have written before that writing clarifies your thoughts. But writing really does more than that. For example, writing makes you realize how much you do not know. The proof of what you truly know really happens when the ink hits the paper. You will be surprised how much writing revels your true knowledge. It’s humbling. Therein lies the advantage of writing. It allows you to discover what you do not know. Things you should research deeper on. Stuff you should throw out. Knowledge you are missing. Information you should include.

Think you know a lot? Start writing.

Why not write? 

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Right for what?

Every person in the business must be the right fit in executing the business plan. No matter how small the role is and no matter how far down the hierarchy it is. Problems happen when they do not know what is the business objective they are supposed to achieve and what their specific role is in the grander scheme of things. Their roles need to be contextualised for them. If it wasn’t explained to them, hold the manager responsible.

Do they know?

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Did you keep the other for another day?

The fastest way to your objective maybe one that you have not taken. Because it is one you have not taken, it will look risky because you are unfamiliar with it. That is anxiety, not risk. Yet, sometimes the riskier path is the one that can get you to your objective the fastest.

Which road will you take?

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