If you are a person who likes to work in details, it is easy to get lost.
You might get stuck and miss a deadline.
You might focus on improvement and strive for perfection while never getting to the point of feeling done.
You might not know where to start and therefore focus on minor tasks.
It is about priority setting.
Especially if you advance in your career, one of the key elements for setting yourself up for success, is to choose the right areas of focus. The better you know how to prioritize and quickly adapt to changing business needs, the more you will work on what really matters and omit unimportant tasks.
I have to admit: I still love details. In some areas. However, especially after moving into a leadership role, I was forced to rethink some work habits and organize my team and myself differently. It’s a constant path of reflection, modification, experimentation, unlearning, learning, growing. I’m not done and will never be. As the world changes with every day, I cannot not change or not adapt. If I tried, I would fail in the long run.
For me, it is not difficult to set priorities. And I enjoy making decisions. However, this process requires that I neglect some requirements.
That I say no to some people.
That I accept that I don’t have it all under control.
And that I don’t always know it all or have the full picture.
That’s the tough part for me. And when thinking about it and suffering in my head, I have to say that most of the suffering is created by me.
My own thoughts and expectations set me up for suffering.
It rarely happens that some other person would complain.
Meaning that what I worry about rarely really happens or does not matter in case it happens.
It’s all in my head.
And it’s part of my progress to recognize this fact and decide to worry less.
It’s a decision. It’s a choice. It’s about mindset.
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