Results & Relationships

thinking out loud on how do you approach thinking about the unthinkable? Measuring the unmeasurable? if discipline is a journey of discomfort and joy, how do we improve? if doubt and a wavering mind are the opposite of discipline how could "that what if" help those you serve? is it thus a feeling? if we choose to be resolute in our behaviour it looks a lot like discipline When working its important we embrace data, metrics, and predictions AND what's hard to measure, quantify, and touch ourselves. for example when conducting due diligence for our systems, we must consider operations, cybersecurity, privacy by design, AI, sustainability, scalability, costs, and robustness. Equally important is the well-being of the people we serve and those who operate and maintain our systems for their intended purpose. What can be backed up by metrics, code, and documentation? and what is hard to measure yet still needs to be translated into disciplined execution to serve its intended outcome. As always I don't know and love hearing your thoughts on this. Below is an image intended to show that you always have your digital twin permanently everywhere and it's impossible to know or measure all it's being used for. Generated by leonardo.ai by some nudges by me

Dimensions, Dials and Dashboards What actions and results are they intended to make likley outside of themselves and for whoms benefit?

Who matters to you and what do they care about? If you reflect on it you will quickly see results that matter to them. Results that open doors, eyes and opportunitites for them. What are you going to do now that you see it?

Are you making space for restorative hobbies? Someting just for you. It affects your professional behaviour more than you know. Also - are sometimes making your professional behaviour mixed up with your hobby, forgetting that as a professional its not about you. Its now about what you let OTHERS get from engaging with your work. Whenever I get into imposters syndrome I've mixed these two up. I've made it about me too much, whenever I remind myself of those I'm really doing this for (others) its suddenly easeir to do that hard work again. Let yourself have hobbies, and also let your hobby be part of you work. Just dont let it get in the way of actually leveling up in a way that serves your people better. And most importantly. Let yourself have space for hobbies that is just for you and friends without a "meaningful specific" with a deadline, ourcome, point... Those around you dont need to "get" or understand your hobbie. This is something you do for just you. I believe we all need this. We all also need to put ourselves on the line for those we care. Thats the professional behaviour that yields results that matter. Its full of state of play, yet lets not mix this up with a hobbie just because we're having fun at work.  

A small mental exercise to see who you want around you and what skills and behaviour you yourself want to bring to their table and thus yours.