It Doesn't Matter

(This is a mod'd excerpt from my Monday morning blog post for my team)

Hope everyone had an awesome holiday weekend. Quick pep talk this Monday morning:

Try to take a few moments every Monday to think through what your week and days should look like. Far too often it’s easy to get distracted with false positives of urgency and import. If you don't decide what you'll do with your time, someone else certainly will.

Here’s the reality: most things don’t matter.

Let me repeat that for myself if no one else: most things don’t matter. And if they do, they don’t matter all that much.

“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” - Jim Rohn

When the sun burns out, the earth is engulfed in the beauty of that supernova, and we’re all long gone, the people running this simulation we call ‘existence’ won’t talk about how you fixed that (not actually a) bug (but someone made it a big deal because they were bored) within 30m instead of 3 hours.

Your kids won’t care. Your partner won't care. Your parents won't care. Your celebrity crush won't care. Your 80 year old self won’t care. And, 9 times out of 10, the customer or team member who reported the issue won’t actually care.

But they will care about [REDACTED PROJECT ??], amazingly responsive user experiences, and [REDACTED PROJECT ??].  

Now, of course they won’t actually. But, if they did talk about something, it’d be the cool shit! It'd be the valuable shit. The stuff that makes a dent.

On the flip side: responsiveness matters because relationships matter. So be good to each other, fellow team members, and the customers we service.

It’s really simple: take care of the people and things that are important, let the rest sort itself out. But just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it’s easy. And that’s why it takes reflection. It requires mindfulness and intentionality.

This is precisely the purpose of these weekly posts and our Monday morning meetings. Join me in learning to balance better and better!

Now let’s go light up some value this week!!!