Early this week I networked with a woman who successfully owned a thriving business for several years - maybe decades. She asked me to go through my career and ask myself two questions about each job: how did I screw up? What did I hate about it?
If I hadn't had my Adderoll experiences, or read Career Warfare and Well Connected, I would have had much perspective, but those three things alone gave me a good sense of how to productively answer those questions.
I saw consistent issues dating back to the 80's. As I looked at my blog to help jog my memory, I saw something else that was kind of disturbing: continued proclamations that I was "better" somehow. Yet, sometimes it was the very next post that would surface some issue I'd created, which my prior proclamation should have prevented - or at least been used to fix the issue. I have numerous examples of this.
Again, thank God for Adderoll, but it isn't a magic syrum. It simply helps me focus on what I need to do - which is be consistent. Devoting so much time this week to building out a plan for a potential job, has been great, but it's created an all-too-familiar set of issues, with missed promises and lack or organization. I should have rescheduled things, and planned out the project further..
How can I make asking "why" or even better, "the five whys" part of my thinking?
I've just added that to my Ongoing Optimization chart. Hopefully, I can remain aware of these observations and continue incorporating them into a system of personal development.
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