After being away from home for the best part of the last month, I have to say that it is great to be home. It is great to sleep in my own bed and be surrounded by all the familiar things in my life. I never cease to be amazed at how quickly the set and established routines of my home life retake centre stage after being away, and up until now, I have never questioned that that should be so.
Maybe it is just a stage of life, but I am finding that I am increasingly questioning many things that I have previously accepted as "just the way things are". That is not to say that there is anything inherently wrong with how life is travelling along, but I am wondering if there is a better way.
Take "New Year's Resolutions" as an example. They seem to be a pretty common thing that lots of people do, myself included, but after a couple of weeks, I find that they fade into the maelstrom of 'normal' life, and are barely considered again until the next new year.
So why do we wait until the new year to take stock of where we are 'at' and make some decisions about what we want to be different? The second that marks the difference between December 31 and January 1 is no more or less significant than any other of the 31, 536, 000 seconds in a year. To my mind, any resolutions that we make need to be made at the point in the year that they need to be made to be effective.
I am in the middle of doing the standard data review of performance during the previous year at work. It is the same questions being asked, and I am suspecting with increasing certainty that the same answers will be arrived at, whereby achieving nothing. Albert Einstein once famously said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So I am wondering if work is asking the right questions to analyse previous performance in an attempt to improve future performance. The bigger question for me is "Why do we wait until the end of the year to determine if we are doing a good job?" Surely we should be constantly reviewing things to seek improvement?
I believe that this kind of thinking could be applied in all areas of my life. That is what I resolve to have a crack at this year. Does that make sense?
Until next time,
CfB
Maybe it is just a stage of life, but I am finding that I am increasingly questioning many things that I have previously accepted as "just the way things are". That is not to say that there is anything inherently wrong with how life is travelling along, but I am wondering if there is a better way.
Take "New Year's Resolutions" as an example. They seem to be a pretty common thing that lots of people do, myself included, but after a couple of weeks, I find that they fade into the maelstrom of 'normal' life, and are barely considered again until the next new year.
So why do we wait until the new year to take stock of where we are 'at' and make some decisions about what we want to be different? The second that marks the difference between December 31 and January 1 is no more or less significant than any other of the 31, 536, 000 seconds in a year. To my mind, any resolutions that we make need to be made at the point in the year that they need to be made to be effective.
I am in the middle of doing the standard data review of performance during the previous year at work. It is the same questions being asked, and I am suspecting with increasing certainty that the same answers will be arrived at, whereby achieving nothing. Albert Einstein once famously said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So I am wondering if work is asking the right questions to analyse previous performance in an attempt to improve future performance. The bigger question for me is "Why do we wait until the end of the year to determine if we are doing a good job?" Surely we should be constantly reviewing things to seek improvement?
I believe that this kind of thinking could be applied in all areas of my life. That is what I resolve to have a crack at this year. Does that make sense?
Until next time,
CfB
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