Etiqueta: effort

MVP

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Minimum Viable Product can be defined as ”that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort”.

How many times we seek for perfection? How long did it take the last time you delivered something 100% “well-made”?

Sometimes it’s better to deliver a minimum viable product, even more in the uncertain environment we are immersed in. Invest the right amount of energy in creating it, learn from the received feedback and apply it to deliver an enhanced version.

Long run, small steps, saving energy.

Sandcastles

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As kids, we would spend the whole day at the beach, building a sandcastle, so high that it would reach the sky. One step after another. But, it could take only a wave, or just one absent-minded person to make the structure collapse. So then, you would have to rebuild it from the remaining ruins or start over the whole structure.

It can be exhausting as kids, and as grown-ups when you try to progress and the sand slips beneath your feet. But, lets start over, once again. That’s what resilience is about.

Survival mode

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There are times when we have no time, low energy and tons of things to do. That’s when our body, turns into a save energy mode. We feel tired, need some sleep and sometimes, a bit of fever.

And knowing that, before it happens, we need to be smart and split our energy between what is important, urgent and all the rest.

Save your time and energy for what is needed. Do things right, execute what is not too important on your own performance limits. Energy, time and speed will be at 100% soon, don’t waste it in the meantime.

What was highlighted by others before you did

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You have been asked to read and summarize a document. And someone else was asked to do so before you. That person highlighted what he/she considered were important parts or remarkable ideas.

  • Should you just replicate what was done and make your someone else’s words?
  • Should it be a guideline, to develop your own thoughts and comments from where they left it? Enrich someone else’s ideas?
  • Or, should you make a double effort, ignore the tentation of effort avoidance, start from “non real” scratch and build your own summary and conclusions?

Decision-making can sometimes be like a document overview. You can just repeat what someone else decided was important (keep things like they were), you can enhance someone else’s choices or you just can take it as another piece of information and make your own choices. It all depends on how much do you want to see reality with your own eyes (maybe you will reach the same conclusions as others did), it depends on how much do you want to contribute with your own vision of the world and reality. It’s always up to us.

Time elasticity

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It is a finite element, but the use you make of it, says a lot.

Low usage (low elasticity):

  • Tiredness
  • Sense of too much to do, no time at all to do anything
  • Any peak of activity looks huge, almost impossible
  • Any proposal for going out is uf! Not in the mood
  • Leads to inefficiency, two unnecessary movements, efforts, …

High usage (high elasticity):

  • Feeling of being alive
  • The sense that there is still room for something more, you just need to find the time slot for it
  • Any peak of activity is handy, it will only require to adjust some things that is it
  • You make the best of each free time, each moment spend with friends and family, …
  • Leads to efficiency, maximizing your movements and eliminating those non added value activities

The more busy your day is, the more you make of it. Just make sure, you don’t reach the maximum capacity of time availability. It is not infinite, and there must be flexibility.

Forsake the fear. Work on happiness.

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Fear is something that we all experience in our life. Don’t be paralyzed, don’t comply. Take action.

 

When you remain in silence despite disagreeing with what is being said, you keep running in circles, you do something that you do not like, read during a presentation instead of interacting with the public, you are conservative in your approach to a problem solving issue, you do just as you are told or copy from someone who is average, it’s because of fear. And fear, always takes away a piece of happiness from us.

So, Every time… you start a project out of your domain, you speak up, you tell others when something bothers you, when you jump into the unknown, you take risks, you question things, you relocate, you ask when you don’t understand, you meet new people, you walk into a room where you know anyone, you change the approach after realizing that the previous one led nowhere… Every single time you do that, you are moving one step further from your comfort zone, without being aware of it. Firstly the feeling of uncertainty, a different kind of fear. Did I risk too much? What will be the outcome? Could I have done better? Ufff…

The more you move, the less you agree with simply being comfortable, with complying. (If it feels uncomfortable, it’s good: post)

And then, one day, all of the sudden you may find or see something that brings back to your memory that old version of yourself. And you realize instead of jumping into the void (as you feared you were doing), you are greater, better. With new fears ahead.