GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski
The toughest part of all things is the people part.
Hold on to being right and all you’ll be is right. Transcend rightness and get ready for greatness.
Embrace hubris and there’s no room for truth. Embrace humbleness and everyone can get real.
Judge yourself and others will pile on. Praise others and they will align with you.
Expect your ideas to carry the day and they won’t. Put your ideas out there lightly and ask for feedback and your ideas will grow legs.
Fight to be right and all you’ll get is a bent nose and bloody knuckles. Empathize and the world is a different place.
Expect your plan to control things and the universe will have its way with you. See your plan as a loosely coupled set of assumptions and the universe will still have its way with you.
Argue and you’ll backslide. Appreciate and you’ll ratchet forward.
See the two bad bricks in the wall and life is hard. See the other nine hundred and ninety-eight and everything gets lighter.
Hold onto success and all you get is rope burns. Let go of what worked and the next big thing will find you.
Strive and get tired. Thrive and energize others.
The people part may be the toughest part, but it’s the part that really matters.
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