Yes I would need to stock take, review, write it down. It would do me good, right? Because there are things pending me to do, a future me to become and to achieve.
Theory U : I need to declutter my life, I mean how I spend my time. Most likely it's about
1. spending less time scrolling, posting "trying-and-failing-to-solicit" posts. Replace those with actually putting in the work to develop my own thought leadership
2. spend less time being uncomfortable with being myself. I there's some but little value in going to networking and being awkward there, and bashing myself for not being an extrovert. Just embrace my way to meet and connect with people. I need to respect and appreciate myself more
3. be better at organising my thoughts and learning, so I spend less time going in circles of futility and reduce wastage. I mean it's unavoidable but I'd like to try become better at learning through living. Naturally and organically but not lost.
I am assuming the above is what Theory U entails. I am actually not sure.
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Then, about 2023. It was a good year. It's say better than 2022. Wasn't it. Of course a lot of it was about my jobs. I mean my experience with my jobs, and what the job made me.
The P job. It was, haha, easy? I wasn't busy. But I felt very restrained, by the size of the company, the hierarchy, the silly "corporate" culture (was it typical "corporate culture"?). I guess the colleagues around me drained me a lot too, because of how different we were, work-culturally speaking.
But because it was kind of easy o had time to be part of running a bookstore. And was it also that year (of 2022) when I was on Good Finance Institute, then Ensemble? Haha, good fun.
2023, with H, I could count my projects! PG, Ed, JC, RF, CAN, CSS. Was also a bit in others' projects: DFS, Car, Cha, what else?
Was also on other things: events, and more. August was a lot.
Oh, and a lot of learning and acquiring: this whole framework thing, the Obs thing, the games, and more tools. Ecosystem friends, existing and new. Meeting building nurturing. Synergising fighting calibrating. Phew.
I must have been at a f tonne of events. It's lunacy.
Ok I guess it was entrepreneurial.
And I did a course too. It was light, and therefore a bit nice.
Or maybe it wasn't so many things, not in total. Because everything was small. Except that our brains, or maybe my bandwidth, doesn't work not this way. These things occupied a lot of my headspace, and my whole self actually.
Umm yes it would have been nice had we have say just 3-5 things, for the whole year. Considering capacity say four 250k projects, just me and three other teammates. One season each. And each season with 1-2 other small things, single or handful workshops. That'd be ideal wouldn't it?
Sorry for the digression.
Oh HM! There's never perfection but it's pretty darn good! Excellent for me at my current stage. High autonomy, me to create my "universe". Surrounded by smart and kind souls. Opportunity to learn new things and grow. What more can I ask for?
- even more robustness in what we do: sharper, more compelling narrative and service offerings
Will it have to come at the expense of things I enjoy?
It depends, how I trade time. Not with Ant's. But with little-value networking and little-value LinkedIn-ing.
What about a cap for low margin and low value engagements? Such as I would only do five in a year eg Ed, PG, public ones? Umm 🤔 I guess we can, but for my second or my third year?
I guess I would have to experiment. And I already experimented. Yes to a cap then. Four public. Quarterly basically.
2023 in review again in terms of events: I did - but it was part of learning and acquisition… and marketing… (yes of course): DT, Irish, The Hive, Ed; FCCI, Pw, Retk? And more whatevs.
This is helpful thought process. I will enjoy having this record.
