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Dear Reader, Sometimes we feel inadequate, neither strong nor fast enough. Thinking “I’m a piece of s..t” won’t help. You are not fixed in stone; you are more like clay. You can improve. You are a work in progress, more… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, how much do you care about the quality of your art, of your work, of your relations? How much are you willing to raise the bar? If you let someone else set it, you may end up with… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I’m getting more and more convinced that we can see our true self only when we are alone. The reasoning goes along these lines: when we are with other people we are (in normal conditions) not allowed to… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Now and then I see workers performing and answering the same way anyone else could. That is nothing wrong in principle, as long as the answer is correct and the deliverables are reasonable. However, it smells fishy when… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, we often hear the sentence “Do this job quick and dirty, don’t spend too much time and effort into it”. What is rarely understood is that “quick” passes quickly, while “dirty” stays dirty. The effort of cleaning up later… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I am prone to fall into a sense of inadequacy, more often than I would like. That feeling is sometimes the cause of a certain kind of paralysis: how can I act, if I’m not adequate/good enough/self-assured? In a… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, How many times you saw one of your proposals (when it was a reasonable one) rejected because “Yes, but it doesn’t solve the problem straight away”. “Yes, but the problem is bigger than this”. “Yes, but it does… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, You may have had an idea, a vision for the future, based on what other people are doing. Someone will tell you that “in our organisation, this is pure science fiction”. Tell’em this: “Since someone is doing it,… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Children have an uncanny ability to keep scores. They are used to play, remember goals, hits and tokens. They also tend to remember missed promises and broken vows for like… ETERNITY! A child knows if you are trustworthy… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I’ve already written about one aspect of caring (see my post Intensive care unit), but there is another one close to my heart and that I feel is often underrated. In many simple conversations or even in writing we… Continue Reading →