Showing posts with label god. Show all posts
Showing posts with label god. Show all posts

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Bosses failing and who the hell's God anyways?

You don't want your bosses or organization to fail.  It's no good.  Sometimes (always) we're put into organizations where we can't control the outcome.  Arguably, unless we're on top of our organizations, we have almost no control.  We might be able to control our system or process or area but if we're not controlling the whole thing (and what would the whole thing even be?!), the organization (and us with it) might be failing.

Managing context and our situation to the best of our ability is critical and sometimes we have almost no choice but to do this.  We have the option to influence and partner with the people above us but that might not be enough sometimes.  Probably the best thing we can do is to control our own organizations and try to lead more of them.  But even then, there's probably no organization without a context unless that's God.  It's definitely not you or anything you can think of!!

No ends

Pretend that it (and life) never ends.
Because it probably doesn't!!!
Yes, things can end but they also repeat and start again.  We can stop what we're doing for a moment and reflect.  We can pause and digest the world around us.  Our ability to connect with a larger, spiritual power, is easy awesome and probably never ending unless we choose to let it end.  Let's decide to never let it end because that's a lot more fun and interesting.  Be positive all the time.

Everything is better on a team

We are not alone until we think of ourselves as such.
Selling as an individual sucks.  Marketing yourself sucks.  Being the main person who is delivering the thing sucks.  Teams are way better than individuals most times and this is true in almost all contexts.

When it comes to sales and selling the same holds true.  I like to sell by myself but I do not love it.  What I love is the idea that I can sell as part of a team and system, rather than as an individual. 

We need to find ways to take ourselves as individuals out of the picture and figure out how we can grow teams around ourselves who love and support us in our efforts and interests. 

We need to get excellent at having others help us.  The more we can define a process and system for growing, selling, and success, the better off we all will be.

Find God, you might as well

Find balance and control. 
Have obsessions but don't let them
rule your life.  Find God: you might as well.
We probably all have obsessions and favorite topics but we need to make sure that we're monitor and controlling these things and keeping them in check.  We never need or want our obsession(s)--or anything for that matter--to rule our lives.

If we do choose to have obsessions (or are forced to by whatever means or compulsions), however, we should make sure that they are positive ones.  My obsessions, for example, of communicating, thinking, writing and speaking are what they are but I have to learn how to control and monitor them.

I can't see too big of a problem with the obsessions I have but I know I have to keep them in check. 

It's probably far better to have passions than obsessions but for those of us who do have obsessions (whatever they might be), we need to be very careful and make sure that we're monitoring them and ensuring that they do not turn into compulsions or become overly consuming thought processes in our lives that prevent us from succeeding in achieving other outside influences or forces.

Finding balance in our lives is hard and we need to ease up on our own minds and thought processes sometimes.  Find God, you might as well.