Nov 14, 2022
What are you going to do?
Making decisions and how they help us
This big question does a few critical things.
It gives you the power
It confers responsibility
The answer also determines the outcome and gives you the opportunity to see what’s on the other side.
As cool as that sounds, many people shy away from answering it and the reason is that when you answer it, the outcome is on you.
Shying away doesn't help and it certainly doesn't vaporize the situation.
Progress is in owning the outcomes and taking responsibility.
Because then, you can ask, “what next?”
Here’s an interesting post by Seth Godin
History is filled with examples of people who made errors in judgment.
The executives at Decca that turned down the Beatles, the CEO at Digital who said that no one would ever need to have a computer in their home, and the reviewers that didn’t like the movie 2001.
And of course, the creators that are wrong so often. The entrepreneur who raises a bunch of money and fails, or the musician who follows up a hit with a string of duds.
But these failures are all a sign that someone had been given the privilege to be wrong in the first place.
It’s tempting to find a sinecure where someone tells you what to do all day–after all, then you’re off the hook and you can’t be wrong, only the boss can.
But it’s far more thrilling and useful and fulfilling to be the one who might mess up.
So, what are you going to do about work this week? Or your podcast? Or your book? Or that project you messed up? Or the new win?
What’s going to be on you?
