Weekly Wisdom: Volume 1

Hi there!

Welcome to my world!

I’m starting this Weekly Wisdom series where I share my insights on life, business, careers, etc., all from the past week.

So grab your coffee, stuff your chocolate bar or favorite snack, and relax on the couch as you explore what my mind is digesting from the previous week.

Hopefully you learn something too!

And, of course, let’s make this conversational — I would love to hear your thoughts as well. :)

True friends are hard to find and harder to keep.

If you have friends that genuinely want the best for you, root for your success, and want you to win in life, then keep them close by — your success amplifies their belief in you.

And if they believe in you and support you throughout, reciprocate it. It’s Ubuntu, not transactional.

Eagles thrive with fellow eagles, not with chickens meddling in front of KFC.

Be an eagle and keep your co-eagles close. Fly together. Soar together. Believe together. Live together. Laugh together. Love together. And die together.

Because that’s what eagles do best.

When a problem arises, it’s easy to exacerbate it and avalanche it into an endless corundum of other escalated issues.

That, of course, doesn’t work. Never has, never will.

However, if you switch to a problem-solver’s mindset, you will levitate towards formulating the solutions that solve what you’re (which you shouldn’t be) complaining about.

Stop focusing on the problem. Focus on solving the problem itself.

Channel your energy from complaining to eradicating what you’re complaining about.

Complaining doesn’t solve the problem. Solving it does.

The point of (reasonable) criticism is to identify someone’s deficiencies and fill them accordingly.

Constructive criticism is an excellent example of this — it shows where to grow and improve. Plus, one or two actionable insights to accompany the feedback for improvement are helpful.

Criticism without a proposed solution, however, is as empty as the gap found in the critiqued.

The fine line between accountability and assertiveness.

If you’re doing your job to your ability, you affirm that you did the right thing to your knowledge. (Deciding or executing the task with the limited resources available.)

If the outcome was not the intended one, take accountability for it. Own your mistake and make your amends.

Also, it’s most likely a system error if you did the absolute task but the wrong outcome. Needless to say, it’s not your fault. And ideally, you’ll want to put in an undeniable amount of effort to clarify that it’s not your fault if something fails.

Admit when wrong. Stand up when not.

Leading to my final point:

This should be a top Management 101 lesson.

You will have the desired outcome for a job — the perfect picture of it. You also acknowledge that you can’t do it all alone. You don’t know it all.

The least you could do here is show your subjects your vision, which is why leaders are often visionaries.

And if possible, explain the procedure for doing things to them.

If you don’t, they will most likely try figuring it out on their own, which often goes only so far.

Don’t blame them for the results they brought if you didn’t show them how to do it.

I love this Computer Science principle: GIGO — Garbage In, Garbage Out. What you put in, you get out. What you sow, you reap.

Put 100, get (at least) 100. Put 0, get 0. Easy.

Show them what to do, and you’ll get what you show them to get…with the inverse holding true.

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Thanks for reading! =)

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~T.K.K