Welcome to my journey!

End of the month means only one thing. A beginning of a new one. What will be your goals for this month?

Workout is important to keep yourself fit. But what if you eat junk food all the time? This is a similar case when you devel a product. You want the environment for your people to foster their creativity. If you failed to do that. It is hard to be creative and innovative. Think about it? Many companies want creative and efficient working environment, but they don’t provide the right “food” for their employees and therefore they are doomed to fail.

Most of us have a bank account. At the end of the month, we can check our bank balance. Did we spend as much as we can afford or not? For many people, sticking to a budget is a hard or even an impossible thing. But this is where the true mastery of life lies in. You must know on a weekly basis what your skill balance is, what your bank account is and what your friends’ relationships are. If you don’t, you will never reach out to your true potential. ANd your true potential is the combination of money, time and network. The richer you are, the more you have of those elements.

In my post, The power of networking I had explored how important it is to network. But also, you need to be surrounded by the right people. There is a saying that you are the sum of the 5 people you interact the most with. And if you interact with the wrong people, then you will end up with the wrong results. Sometimes it is hard to say no to the wrong people. Maybe you know them from a long time. But to power to create a new destiny is to make the hard decisions and stick with them.

When speaking with many people, one key skill always comes up. The power of networking. There are many amazing positions and opportunities hidden for you and I. You need to know the right people, no matter if you want to become a famous actor or the future director of technologies and one way to gain them is to know the right people. Networking is also hard. You need to know where to go and with whom to talk with. Also, there is an opportunity cost. Is it better to focus on your own things or to invest the time to meet new people? With a little bit of luck, we can all become better at networking and find those hidden opportunities.

Feeling that days are grinds is really horrible. However, there will be such days in everyone’s life.  The goal here is to have less bad days and more days you are focused on the important things. I am still adjusting my own habits to serve me instead of me serving all the social medias. Whoever it is still a struggle and a battle. One good tool you can use is called Year compass to adjust what you want to BE and HAVE this year!

I still see some issue being 100% concentrated on the most important things, but as long as every day I am 1 percent better it is fine. The thing is having bad habits gives us a really bad fundamentals. And it is very hard to change them. The main reason is to be kind and to do our best daily.    

Big corporations possess a lot of imperfections. The reason for it is the slow decision making and the preference for stability over agility. There is a need for both in this world. You wouldn’t want to use a plane which was barely tested and pray you reach safely your final destination. But also, if you want to grow, being stuck in stability might not be the right place for you. What I am doing to introduce more variety in my daily work is to add study and to learn new technologies on a monthly basis.

Many people have the issue of wasting their time with “guilty” pleasures. For me, that is politics, and I observe the political changes carefully. But what I realize is that the politics is such a slow game and things don’t drastically change month by month, if the system is very stable. This means that the time I am investing is actually a waste. What I want to do over the long term is to say no to too much information and yes, to more actions.

A lot of “promising” technologies go busted last year. This just proofs that when the market is over optimistic, everyone wins. But when the market trends reverse, then few things will survive. Choose carefully your investments, especially when you are not a professional investor and this is not your full-time job.