Tag: Work

Commitment is often difficult

Posted on by philipdodson

Sometimes you just have to commit and do something.

The easy route of instant gratification, while enjoyable for that moment, is never a long-term winner and often leads to regret.

Commitment is often difficult because we look at the big picture, think what’s needed to achieve it and then talk ourselves out of it. We then do lot’s of unimportant things to feel busy and justify to ourselves why we are not doing the more important things.

Commitment is a long-term thing and is about doing many small things really well. Doing them day-in day-out and over time the ‘compound effect’ kicks in, that Darren Hardy explains brilliantly in the book of that title.

So little perceptible change occurs to start with, in fact it may be many months until all that commitment starts to make any difference, but as your momentum grows and grows, then the changes will take off.

It is learning this commitment and patience that most of us find a challenge, especially if like me you are not overly patient. But we have to resist the temptation to give up in the early stages, when nothing seems to come back from the hard work you put in.

Day after day, if you keep doing those small steps well, then things will change and change beyond what you thought is possible.

So whenever you feel like stopping, remember that just one more day might be all it takes to get that result you have been working hard to achieve.

The next generation of workers

Posted on by philipdodson

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The next generation of workers will be totally different to what we currently think workers are and what work is.

Work is no longer a physical space for many and work certainly is no longer a physical activity for most. Work is more based on ideas, more based on collaboration, on sharing than ever.

The workforce of the future will be increasingly self-employed, will be increasingly part of the connected generation and will be more interested in whether or not what they do on a daily basis is fulfilling or not.

Work is an activity, that for more and more people involves self-promotion and involves creating and sharing content, that hopefully inspires others to engage with us. It is the inspirational quality of the content that we produce and share, that will define the level and quality of engagement.

We will all more and more likely move from one gig to another in collaboration with others. In order for that to work, it will need to be based more and more on shared values and it will based more and more on our individual why and less and less on what we do/have done.

So the workforce will be made up of an army of mainly generation Y, connected, tech savvy, living in the digital world, who will be skilled in promoting themselves to others in order to create meaningful, rewarding collaborations with other like-minded individuals.

Then all that remains is where to do that collaborations. It won’t be done in sterile, non-collaborative traditional office spaces, it won’t happen in people’s living rooms/spare bedrooms or coffee shops.

It will happen in communities and in coworking spaces that cater for this ever-growing new workforce.

This is the future of work – sharing knowledge, working with others, truly understanding the power of helping, giving and working with others to fill the gaps in our skills.

It is the most exciting change in the history of the human race, as the opportunity to collaborate to solve the world’s challenges will be truly revolutionary. We have only scratched the surface in terms of what the human race is capable of, as we have yet to truly harness the power of global collaboration.