Resources vs being Resourceful

Every once in awhile, or perhaps more often than I would like, I get stuck, get frustrated, get lost.

In those moments, quitting seems like the best thing to do. After all, if I quit, I don't have to face the frustration, deal with the annoyance, or confront the fear of failure.

When I stop the pity party and decide to move on, I start to find a long list of things that I don't have-like enough time, enough money, enough contacts, enough knowledge or skill to move forward.

When I ultimately decide to really move forward, it is because I have the desire and passion to do so. Then, in those moments I become resourceful and find whatever or whoever I need to make things happen.

For some reason, when I decide, believe and then commit to do something, suddenly the need to find or rely on resources outside of myself seems to disappear.

Just a thought!

Confronting Reality, Sometimes!

Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan have written a business book that addresses an interesting premise.

"Confronting Reality", in a business framework or circumstance.

Confronting reality is like telling your wife, "no, she doesn't look fat in that dress". Confronting reality is deciding not to do the hair comb-over anymore. Confronting reality is also accepting that your boss isn't all that competent, that just going to church and trying not to fall asleep isn't quite the point.

Most business books present a reality that we accept or are willing to believe in some way - Creating Raving fans, or Moving Cheese and going from Good to Great seems reasonable. Most all business books are written in a framework that suggests they and them, not you our us. As such, we don't have to believe there is anything wrong, just something to do that makes, "things" better, more refined.

Finding out that you aren't very good with people, customer service, or that your product is merely a commodity is a tougher, less appealing version of "reality".

Reality is a tough place to be, and surely a difficult task to assess, especially when self and ego are involved.

If reality is distorted, unrealistic, or deflected how is any real benefit accomplished? How is change enacted? How do you do the same things over and over again and expect different results? If you work for or deal with any large, long standing organizations or institutions - well,you probably already know.

Well, maybe not. Guess, that depends on your reality.

Death and a fine!

Thanks to Seth Godin for the original post.

Realism- Presentism

Realism- The belief that things are in the reality as they appear in the mind.

Presentism- The tendency for current experience to influence one's view of the past and the future.

These are the lenses of our world. Had your vision checked lately?