If you are like me, it is possible that you have been stressing out about a certain event that was about to happen and have been really scared about the possible outcomes that it could have ended up with, only to find out that it was not at all like you were expecting. That thing that was looking very scary in the first place, ended up becoming a valuable experience that did not make us become dived into sweats and break our relationships. It was simply another event that has taught us the importance of paying attention to our work and become more responsible in terms of the quality and the dedication that we devote to our jobs. Continue reading
Category: Personal Development (Page 13 of 20)
It is easy for you to get inspired once from a movie and go and do fifty push-ups without stopping, but then months pass by and you do not do even a single push-up. It is easy for you to write a great blog article because of the lessons that you have learned from a great book that you have read recently, but then you stop writing and forget that you have a blog at all. It is easy for you to get up early and start working on your most important tasks once a year and then you get back to your normal procrastination mode of not doing your tasks until it becomes almost too late. Continue reading
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We often hear different stories of successful people who have been able to accomplish some incredible goals and think that they have been achieving them for a very short period of time, such that they can be even considered as overnight successes, though the truth is too far away from that. Thus, we then think about ourselves that we are not able to accomplish them. As human beings, we have a lot of areas of our lives and not every one of them needs the same treatment or the same attention the whole time. There are a few areas in our lives that need attention at certain periods of time and if we get better at them during those times, they might have a profound impact in our lives. We should be careful of not trying to become a superman in each area in a single month, but be patient and strategically and wisely plan to improve a few of them according to our circumstances. Continue reading
It is important to do your job really well, with the best of your abilities, but if you delay starting working each time, then it might be because that aim for perfectionism is actually becoming an alternate road that is causing you to procrastinate. Continue reading
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We should take responsibility for our own actions and try to improve them, but we should also not be too harsh and hard on ourselves. Moreover, a lot of fears and obstacles might be impeding our progress towards goals, mostly because we see them as things that are against us. Continue reading
As I was reading about agile-methods, for the first time I heard about: Lean Software Development, and among its principles, there is also one that might help us become more efficient in our lives. It is about delaying the decision process as much as possible, so that, when you take that decision, it is already based on careful observations and analysis that would bring better outcomes. Continue reading
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There are usually different ways of achieving something, different pathways that might lead to the same destination and usually the only one that is in front of us might not be the best and the shortest one. Our culture might have shaped our own way of thinking and perceiving the reality, such that we do not realize that the same results that we are after can be achieved through other means. Continue reading
We are often not very keen to do our job, to perform our best and to finish off our to-do list because we do not feel motivated and think that we will do better other times when a moment of inspiration comes. This continues on a consistent basis and then becomes a habit, something that you feel better to do than to not do it. If you want to escape this dangerous trap that might spread into other areas of your life as well, you need to do something about motivation. You might even consider removing motivation from the equation of action at all. Continue reading
Some of the new popular software development processes are agile methods, which in general tend to be used in cases when we might have unpredictable requirements and changes from the client, so that the development team is constantly getting feedback from the client about the product. They try to implement a way of development that might be considered as new, which is done in incremental stages, where each incremental stage is prepared to get the opinion from the client about its development up to that point. As I was reading a really good essay that describes them, written by Martin Fawler, this part made me realize that we as humans, generally speaking, do not incorporate this into our own lives: Doing our best at every stage. Continue reading
Today I stumbled upon an interesting topic where an intern has figured out a bug that he considers as critical and is in a dilemma whether he should report it to the team he is part of. He hesitated to report the bug because he thinks that reporting that bug might cause the other workers to lose their jobs because of their lack of knowledge and carefulness. At the same time, according to the asker, the project, which is due in three weeks, would probably fail if it is released. Continue reading
