09-25-2013, 06:53 PM
It feels like i'm late to the show as there are already a bunch of great comments. Your post resoundingly hits home with me too though so I'll post my two cents. When those anxious moments hit me like an oncoming freight train and decimate my confidence and I just want to find a way out of the misery of not knowing what I don't know and not knowing how I'll improve.. I make a plan. Sometimes it takes a while to remember to do that. Having those near goals to reach is vital to achieving the big ones, and since they are often moving targets it's important to reorganize frequently.
One thing that reminds me of the importance of near goals is the practical example when I'm getting out of the subway station in Seoul. There are almost always escalators going up, and people stand next to each other in two lines. The right line is for standing still, and the left line is for walking up. It's kind of an unspoken social norm. If the escalator is short or medium, people on the left walk all the way up. If the escalator is gigantic, 95% of the time people on the left don't walk up at all. Not halfway, not a quarter, nothing. It seems like it's just the way people approach work..
Happy working~
One thing that reminds me of the importance of near goals is the practical example when I'm getting out of the subway station in Seoul. There are almost always escalators going up, and people stand next to each other in two lines. The right line is for standing still, and the left line is for walking up. It's kind of an unspoken social norm. If the escalator is short or medium, people on the left walk all the way up. If the escalator is gigantic, 95% of the time people on the left don't walk up at all. Not halfway, not a quarter, nothing. It seems like it's just the way people approach work..
Happy working~