Be a person who doesn’t need to be managed.
Take responsibility for your work. Use your initiative and intelligence to get the tools and resources you need. Own your job. Do it like everything you work on is heading out the door with your name on it in very large letters.
Understand your work. Understand what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, the wider context in which it exists and how it will be used when you complete it.
Do your work. Put your energy into getting your real work done. Don’t waste it on busywork.
Deliver your work. Finish it. Do the horrible, fiddly last 3%. Ship it on time.
Be accountable for your work. Yes, you get the blame when it goes wrong. You also get the glory when it goes right. Best of all, you earn trust, even when it goes wrong sometimes.
If your manager has to do much more than help you keep your big priorities tracking with the company’s and help you see where you have potential to grow, something’s not going right.
—Jeff
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way is all about self-reliance and its a great addition to the playlist to get you on your self-starting ways.
I used to say if I wasn’t stressed about it, it wasn’t time to start it. Diamonds are created under pressure right? In my “old age” I have learned it’s much nicer to just get it out of the way. Do I still procrastinate on occasion? Absolutely. Sometimes I lack the ability to be a self starter, but it always pays off when that trait is on my side.
Grow slowly
Skyler
Inner Engineering by Sadguru helped me have an intentional holistic approach to self management. It coincides with Bible character building; self control being 1 in 9 listed. 🪷
Remind me to look up fiddly