Start Your Day with This Simple Practice

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On a daily basis, it is hard to muster the positive outlook that fuels motivation and creativity. When we lose that positivity, burnout, and fatigue can quickly follow. How can we inject some optimism into our day? This two-minute exercise can help.

Each morning, finish the following three sentences (either on paper, out loud, or even in your head) before you turn on your computer or start your commute:

Today, I will focus on _____.

Today, I am grateful for _____.

Today, I will let go of _____.

Let’s make sure to be specific with the answers; writing that you’re grateful for your mom every day won’t help. Ultimately, we’re only awake for an average of 1,000 minutes each day. If we can invest just two of them to prime our brains for positivity, then we’ll be helping ensure the quality of the other 998 minutes.

Optimizing Short term doesn’t help Long term…

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Short-term optimization doesn’t necessarily help in the Long term.

Here are the short-term and long-term versions:

#Good Salary level (Short term) doesn’t mean you can Build Wealth (Long term), it requires much more than that, the habit of saving, investments, and luck…

#Going to the gym today (Short term) doesn’t mean good health and longevity, it requires discipline and habit to build good health.

#Performing well in your job today (Short term) doesn’t mean a good career plan, as the job may become obsolete if you are not learning for the future i.e. for the long term. 

Because of our short-sightedness to perform better in the short term, we miss the future and longer-term thoughts. 

So don’t miss to think about the long term, give at least 10% of your time to long-term thoughts, dreams, and plans.

Fight leads to deeper connections…

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You would have noticed that when you fight or have a confrontation with a loved one, it leads to a deeper connection with the person.

Hence,

Fight is a natural process to understand each other, 

Fight helps us understand the rough edges of each other, 

Fight helps us understand the boundaries of each other.

Fight inculcates deeper meaning for each other,

Don’t worry if you fight with a loved one, that means it is making your relationship stronger, as long as you are ready to love each other no worries…keep fighting :).

Introducing AI into Your Organization

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Given the rapid emergence of generative AI, you may be wondering how you should prepare to introduce it at your organization. Start by framing the technology as a set of systems your team can use for collaboration. You can do this by focusing on three things:

  • Ensure everyone has a basic understanding of how digital systems work. Emphasize to your team that they don’t have to become programmers or data scientists. You simply need them to take a new and proactive approach to collaboration (learning to work across platforms), computation (asking and answering the right questions), and change (accepting that it’s the only constant).
  • Make sure your organization is prepared for continuous adaptation and change. Communicate with other leaders to break down silos and build a centralized repository of knowledge and data. Integrating AI not only means familiarizing yourself and your employees with today’s technologies, but also being structurally prepared to adapt to future advancements.
  • Build AI into your operating model. If your organization’s tech systems are static, your organization will be static. But if they’re flexible, your organization will be, too. Dismantle data silos, increase cross-functional collaboration, and help to build a software- and data-driven operating model that can harness AI’s potential.

Managing a Burned-Out Front-Line Manager

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More than 50% of managers report feeling burned out. Guiding their employees through the pandemic and its aftermath has exacerbated three hallmarks of burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, and a perceived lack of professional accomplishment. If you’re managing a front-line manager, how can you address this?

First, proactively tie their work to a greater meaning. Discuss what matters most to them and connect their work to those motivators. Next, focus on learning and development. Assign them new, exciting projects, have open conversations about what’s needed to accomplish their goals, and be transparent about potential career paths at the company. Continue to support flexible work to give managers a sense of empowerment over their schedules and help reduce feelings of exhaustion or lack of autonomy.

Finally, create a psychologically safe environment where these employees feel comfortable speaking up about their burnout in the first place—and encourage them to take any self-care measures that might help them recover.

Are You a Chronic Overachiever?

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It’s good to be ambitious in your career. But a relentless drive to achieve can lead to burnout, hurt your relationships, and create an unhealthy work-life imbalance. How can you dial back your overachieving instincts? Start with these steps:

  • Do some self-reflection. When did your pattern of overachievement begin? Was it through high performance in school or sports? Be honest with yourself about how your identity and self-worth got hooked on achieving. Those insights will help you begin the process of undoing what is likely decades of programming.
  • Challenge your assumptions. Ask yourself: What might happen if I were to take my foot off the gas? Am I afraid of failing? Looking incompetent? Letting people down? Our fears are typically based on faulty assumptions and, left unexamined, these assumptions keep us stuck in old patterns.
  • Redefine success. Take a holistic view. Life isn’t just about professional accomplishments. What else do you want in terms of your health and well-being, family, social life, and community? Then choose one small and simple action that will move you toward this broader definition of success.

Conflict Resolution…

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Sure shot way of resolving any conflicts, in these 3 steps:

1. Listening to understand the conflict.

2. Put your ego aside to find a solution.

3. Once decided take the path to solve, however challenging it may be.

Follow this and you can resolve any conflict in life.

Is Mentoring Burning You Out?

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As a mentor, you’re giving your time, attention, and resources to develop someone else — and it can be exhausting. While you may have the best intentions, when you’re too depleted to deliver, the result is a disengaged relationship that’s no longer valuable to anyone. Here are some ways to identify and overcome mentor burnout. First, take time to reflect and identify when you’re reaching capacity. Pay attention to signals such as feeling chronically exhausted, being more cynical than usual, or showing signs of apathy. Ask trusted colleagues to speak up if they see a significant change in your behavior or emotional tone.

Next, look for ways to be more efficient with your mentorship. Don’t assume that high-quality mentoring relationships can only occur in the traditional one-on-one format. For example, consider creating cohorts of mentees who might meet with you monthly for informal conversations.

Finally, to rediscover joy, remind yourself why you wanted to be a mentor in the first place. Remember: This work should generate energy, not drain it.