Tag: Learning

Sometimes in life, it rains

Posted on by philipdodson

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It is not possible to only have sunny days, sometimes in life, it rains. Sometimes it is torrential and goes on for hours or even days.

Life is like the weather, there are good and bad days.

We need both the sun and the rain in life, without them, there would be no life. The darker moments and rainy days in our lives serve a purpose too.

They help us appreciate the good things in life more, they help us learn and how we deal with them is a choice.

We can choose to allow the rainy days to bring us down, we can choose to ignore the fact that the sun always returns and we can choose to allow them to influence how we see ourselves and the situation.

Naturally, we can choose the opposite, so we decide what to make to them no one else.

Whatever it is in life, it is never as bad as we programme ourselves to think and it passes.

Cherish the sunny days and let go of the rainy ones.

Inputs and outputs

Posted on by philipdodson

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We often focus all our energies on our daily outputs, on what we are ‘shipping’ and productivity.

The ‘factories’ of the world are besotted with output whether that is widgets, content, ideas, or hot air.

The missing focus is on input.

What goes in, is typically what will come out!

What inputs do our employees get? What inputs are we taking in?

What influences are we, our teams, and the business exposed to? What is shaping our culture? What are we learning? How are developing our skills to improve our creations?

Instead of looking at how to output more, maybe it would be better to first look at what is being inputted, and perhaps more importantly, how do we improve the quality of the inputs to match what we desire to output?