Daily Letter
Rambling thoughts on why we do what we do, strategy, building teams, building you, and doing work that matters.
“A thought-provoking collection of ideas and musings that if taken to heart, have the potential to add immense depth and richness (with compounding interest) to your life”
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- goals 31
- chaos 21
- leadership 20
- creativity 15
- work 15
- practice 14
- strategy 14
- decision 13
- discernment 13
- meditation 10
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- story 10
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- self 7
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- CX 5
- Lifestyledesign 5
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- minimal 5
- passion 5
- question 5
- regula 5
- samurai 5
- suffering 5
- warrior 5
- Chaos 4
- Customer experience 4
- action 4
- change 4
- culture 4
- friendship 4
- knowthyself 4
- lifelesson 4
- liminal space 4
- reflect 4
- training 4
- transform 4
making a decision | part V
If you have not yet been able to make a decision at this point then make it, in secret (I literally learnt this about a decade ago from a nun)
making a decision | part IV
St Ignatius believed that our imaginations are where we meet the divine. Whether you believe that or not using your imagination can be a powerful tool to you help you make a difficult decision.
making a decision | part III
Once you have identified your options (you need at least two), the next step is to
making a decision | part II
Right, so you need more than one option in order to make any sensible decision. For example, rather than just needing to decide if I’m going to take the job offer or not
making a decision | part I
Decision making can be daunting. Luckily there are processes and practices that people have been using for centuries.
What was it like ... for you?
To reflect on your experience of something can be extremely valuable in making a decision.
MVP to MVP
In a recent article in HBR, it stated that organisations now need to move from building Minimum Viable Products, to Minimum Virtuous Products.
In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, VUCA, world the demand is for integrity, transparency and virtue.
Aggression is necessary
We live in a society that values being calm and collected over being aggressive and violent, and this is a good thing of course, most of the time.
The problem is that we then end up often valuing passivity more than activity. Violence and aggression are necessary elements needed to make decisions, especially difficult ones.
