Personal Problems

It's the system. Or maybe it's the process. It might not be you at all.

It might not be your team at all. Personal problems come from things we say and do, and they can also come from an unfair, deeply flawed system. Personal problems can also be caused by broken processes. 

And yet we often try to solve problems with personal solutions: work harder, work faster, work smarter, muscle up and carry on. Can't you just solve your own personal problem?

Personal problems with systemic causes are hard to solve with personal solutions.

Personal problems may not be personal -- the system or process doesn't care who you are -- but they're still problems.

-- doug smith

Another Problem

A truly ambitious goal will give you a new problem to solve.

-- doug smith

 

Not Perfect?

 

Have you ever held onto a problem just because you couldn't find the perfect solution, an elegant, efficient, bruise-free choice? 

That effort -- for perfection -- has slowed me down a number of times. Perfection can be such a bother, because nothing is perfect in this life and never will be. 

There's no perfect way to solve a problem -- but you don't need perfection to solve it.

If you can find the best way, that is certainly good enough.

-- doug smith