"What’s the difference between people who end up loving what they do and those who are on an endless pursuit looking for the one thing that will fulfill them only to be left disheartened, dissatisfied, and unhappy? I thought passion was the answer. The more I thought about the idea of following my passion, the more I realized it was a trap. How can I be good at anything without doing it enough and how can I get myself to love it when I am not even good at it? In my quest to find this answer, I realized, I do not love my work because I am passionate about it. I feel passionate about my work because I love what I do. In other words, loving what I do comes first and then follows passion."
― Progress Not Passion is the Answer to Loving the Work You Do
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"Undiscussables exist because they help people avoid short-term conflicts, threats, and embarrassment. But they also short-circuit the inquiries and challenges essential to both improving performance and promoting team learning. It’s getting worse as increasingly virtual and globally distributed teams find it harder to pick up signals of discomfort and anticipate misunderstandings. With fewer opportunities to raise undiscussables face-to-face (casually, over lunch or coffee), it becomes even more important to identify and air concerns before they escalate and team and organizational performance begin to suffer."
― It's time to tackle your team's undiscussables
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"As you come to the start of a new year, while you are thinking about your strategy and your end-of-year reviews and your future plans, reserve time and energy for little social niceties. A downside of remote work is that you have to externalize a lot of acts that come cheaply in person. But if you want to create a team that feels engaged and not just transactional, externalized and planned praise and positivity is a necessity. It’s an overdue tool to add to your management toolkit, and the practice will undoubtedly serve you well wherever your career and the world takes you next."
― The importance of small, positive interactions
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When people lie, they are juggling multiple narratives: what they know to be true, what they want to be true, what they are presenting as true, and all the emotions that go along with each—fear, anger, guilt, hope.
All the while, they are trying to project a credible image of themselves, which suddenly becomes very, very difficult. Their beliefs and feelings are in conflict with themselves and each other. Managing all this conflict—conscious and unconscious, psychological and physiological—removes people from the moment.
― Amy Cuddy
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What priorities do you need to get rid off and what priorities do you need to take on this year?
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Enjoy your weekend,
Vinita
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