Equipment Quality

How good is your equipment?

How much effort do you put into it?

Which equipment is crucial?

How much more productive could you be?

Often, we are too stingy on equipment costs.

Better equipment can be invaluable.

Be it software or tools, don’t be stingy.

Time is a finite resource.

Good Equipment lets you get more out of it.

The Experts

How can you identify an expert?

How do you discern a charlatan?

What questions do you need to ask?

Who else could you ask?

Many portray themselves as experts,

yet they only have superficial knowledge.

Ask the expert many questions.

Pretend not to understand anything.

Ask for it to be explained to a child.

Then you will see their understanding.

Money Beliefs

What are your money beliefs?

How do they affect you?

How well are they serving you?

What changes would support you?

We have individual beliefs about money.

Everyone is held back by some of their beliefs.

Most of us are held back by all of our beliefs.

Write them down and look at them.

Look at your life and your actions.

Look at how they have affected your decisions.

Error Whereabouts

Where do you look for the mistake?

How long do you spend checking?

What do you consider first?

When do you look at yourself?

When something isn’t how it should,

we will commence the error search.

Some of us will start with ourselves.

Some os us tend to start with others.

Sometimes the error lies with us.

Sometimes the error lies with others.

Before concluding, check both.

Half-hearted or cancel?

How often do you do things half-heartedly?

How often do you rather cancel?

How do you decide which to do?

How have half-hearted attempts gone in the past?

We are often caught between doing half the job,

or the need to cancel it altogether.

In some instances, you have no choice.

In most it is up to you.

There is no clear right or wrong.

One time, it is best to do half of it.

At other times, it is better to cancel.

Eat The Frog

How often do you push uncomfortable things along?

How long do you wait to make a decision?

How long do you wait to carry it out?

Why do you prolong the wait?

Many decisions in life are uncomfortable.

We might fear rejection.

We might want to please.

We might fear conflict.

We might be overwhelmed.

We might not know what to do.

The longer you wait, the worse it gets.

The moment is never great.

As they say, eat the frog.

Deviating from Standard

When do you deviate from standard procedure?

How often do you do it?

Why do you do it?

How often was it a good idea?

Sometimes it makes sense to deviate.

The tried and tested can be inappropriate.

Something new may be worth exploring.

Even if you have always done it this way.

You will gain insights and learn new things.

Even if the deviation seems a failure.

Support Needed?

How much support do you have?

How much work is on your plate?

How much care work do you have?

How much can you outsource?

Many of us drown in tasks,

at home and at work.

Getting support is the answer.

Get an employee or a service provider.

Ask a friend, family or parents to help.

Buy better equipment to save time.

Support can come in many different shapes and sizes.

What is stopping you from getting the needed support?

Mortality

How aware are you of your mortality?

How often do you ponder on it?

How do you feel about it?

How does it make you react?

We can die any second on any day.

Yet, we rarely ponder on it.

Why should we? It is what it is.

Yet, when you do, it changes things.

It changes how you decide and act.

It changes what you spend your time with.

It changes who you spend your time with.

Remember to ponder upon your mortality now and then.

Affront Reaction

How do you react to an affront?

Do you take time to think?

Do you stay true to yourself?

What is the other party trying to gain?

Often, people will offend you to gain something.

The obvious reaction is usually what they aim for.

Staying calm in the face of an affront is paramount.

Take a moment to think before acting.

Do what is right for you.

Usually, ignoring the affront is a good start.

Compassion for Evil

Can you be compassionate toward evil?

Are you able to understand evil actions?

How often have you done something evil?

Who decides what is evil?

Hurt people hurt people.

Breaking this cycle is arduous.

Most don’t manage.

Neither are most of us perfect.

We all do bad things.

We all do good things.

The ratio is what matters.

Making Sense

What do you spend your time doing?

How purposeful is everything you do?

Does everything make sense for you to do?

What are the reasons you are doing things?

Not everything we do has to make sense.

Not everything we do needs to have a purpose.

Often, the most senseless tasks give us perspective.

The most useless endeavours spark our creativity.

Doing good for yourself

How much good do you do for yourself?

How do you know what the right thing is?

How good are you at picking them?

How often do you pick the wrong thing?

When trying to do good for ourselves,

we may pick the wrong thing,

and end up doing bad for ourselves.

All it needs, is one wrong analysis.

All it needs is one piece of information missing.

All it needs is one wrong advice.

In order to do good for yourself,

you will need to do bad for yourself many times over.

Super Connectors

How easily do you meet the right people?

How do you go about finding them?

How do you even know who is “right”?

Which channels can you use?

The answer is the super connector.

There is people that have a gift.

A gift to know, who needs to talk to whom.

A gift to not only know, but to introduce.

A super connector is worth thousand events.

A super connector is worth thousand of online connections.

Having a super connector as a friend is a treasure.

One Conversation

How many conversations do you try to have?

How many people are you trying to meet?

How well do you connect in each conversation?

What is your goal in each conversation?

Often, one single conversation is all you need.

Meeting one person that you connect with.

Meeting the right people and having the right conversations,

beats going for quantity and shallowness.

When did the last shallow conversation move the needle?

How often did a deep conversation help you?

On great events

How often do you attend events?

Which events were the good ones?

Why were these events good?

How can you discern the good from the bad?

Some events we attend are phenomenal.

Some events we attend are bland.

The events stand and fall with the attendees.

The organisers are the ones who pick the attendees.

If they are great people, so will the attendees be.

So select according to the organisers.

Tiredness vs Habits

How well can you uphold your habits?

How tiered can you be and carry on?

When do you permit yourself to lose discipline?

What do you prioritise in times of hardship?

We all have habits important to us.

We all have times of intense exhaustion.

We all hit a point where we cannot continue.

This is when we need to know what to prioritise.

Sometimes all that is left is to eat and sleep.

Try to adapt before hitting this point.

What is important?

What things make you angry?

Which topics stress you?

Which people make you uncomfortable?

Which behaviors do you detest?

Looking at how things make us feel,

is a great way to see what is important to us.

Once you know this, you know how to act.

You will know whom to work with.

You will know which situations to avoid.

Watch yourself every day and take note.

Treat people fairly

How fairly do you treat people?

How fairly treated do you feel?

Is there a connection, do you think?

When do you feel mistreated?

When do you mistreat others?

We all feel mistreated sometimes, if not often.

We all mistreat others sometimes.

It can be a failure of character.

It can be a failure of nerves.

It can be a failure of etiquette.

It can be a failure of culture.

Be forgiving with yourself,

and others if applicable.

To reply or not to reply

How many messages do you receive daily?

How many of these are unsolicited?

How do you react to them?

How would you like to react to them?

These days, we are getting overwhelmed with outreach.

Social platforms, LinkedIn, Messengers and Telephone.

We need to get our tasks done.

We have limited resources to answer unsolicited communication.

Often, all you can do is ignore it.

Ignore and hope for understanding and forgiveness.

Or you simply do not care.