Job Creation

We think
job creation
is about more open positions
with job descriptions:
something only employers
can do.

Anybody
can create a job
if they can understand the problem
someone needs solving.

If you’re an employee
and you don’t like your job
you could find a problem in your company
someone with the funds
want solved
you can volunteer to solve it
and make that your job

No Choice

When we make
a decision,
that we do not like
the most common rationalization
is that we have
no choice.

The more honest answer may be
“Please don’t blame me.
It wasn’t my fault.”

May we separate being at fault
or fearing blame
with not having a choice.
Or at least thinking there is no other choice.
There are choices,
we simply choose not to choose them
or we choose not to learn them.
But it’s ok.
Be honest.
It’s not your fault.

Setting Up for Failure

Sometimes
we test someone’s reliability
without sharing
our criteria.

Fair enough.

But testing their reliability
without a clear criteria
for the test
basically sets them up
for failure.

If you have strong opinions on something,
but worried you’re not actually testing their skills
frame your opinion as concerns and desired outcomes.

Do them in a way that allows as much freedom for the person to come up with the means to alleviate your concerns and achieve your desired outcomes.

Focus & Burden

What we focus on
is sometimes a result
of a burden
we’re carrying.

That focus can be released
when others release us
from the burden.

I was focused on making the website perfect to make sure I’m supporting connie to the best of my ability,
then she told me I don’t have to work on the website anymore because it was enough and it will never be perfect enough to answer all the questions that we cannot possibly anticipate getting, then I felt a relief from my shoulder, it was then an only then that I realized it was a burden I was carrying. The burden that I must make the website perfect or else I’m not doing my job or my responsibility that I’m not being enough.

Gift Giving

Some give gifts
based on their projection
of value.

Something expensive
Something rare
Something ??

The receiver appreciates gifts
based on what they value
but have difficulty attaining.

Something they wouldnt pay that much for
Something

Naming

If psychologists
can name
our experience
so can anybody.

If so,
may we name it
in such a way
that we feel more curious
about it
as if to take interest
in a pet
or a friend.

Someone
we are more likely
to spend the time and energy
required
to learn to understand
and appreciate.

Rumination

When we hyperfocus on something
anxiety-inducing
the weight of it makes it difficult
for us to do anything else

in these cases,
it’s important to take the long-term
what arey ou ultimately trying to do
by making progress on the subject of rumination

you may realize this is not as important
in which case the weight lessen
and you make room to do others things
more important

not that you won’t do it,
but you’ll do it with greater ease.

Antidote to Uncertainty

Confronted
with a table saw
whirring its blade,
what one may realize
is that to navigate
uncertainty
need not require
certainty
but may be
clarity.
uncertainty -> stall -> hesitation – > stuck -> imobile

There is no certainty
that we may not get injured
by the table saw,
and yet we proceed
so long as we can see
clearly.