Principle — No free lunch

Seth Godin provides some provocative words.

Take a look at the language you use to describe what happened at work yesterday, that’s your first clue. If you’re not the one creating the change, perhaps it’s time to start.

What happened at work yesterday?

One of the realizations that has been most valuable to me.

You must make decisions. Not making a decision is a decision in itself.

Sounds almost stupid, but way too often we hope problems will go away if we don’t think about them.

From the essay “Power” in What matters now, by Jeffrey Pfeffer.

Stop waiting around for bosses and companies to get better and complaining about how are you treated. Build the skills–and use them–that will permit you to create the environment in which you want to live.

It’s up to you — no-one is going to do it for you.

A quote from the LMI course Personal Leadership. (FTBM)

We often have to pay in advance with work and effort for a desirable outcome, while the result of a bad choice is often delayed. This, that the time we have to pay for our poor choices is delayed, may leads us to believe that we somehow might escape. But we will not. We can not choose one thing and reap the benefits of another. We can also not blame fate or bad luck when we afterwards have to pay the price for an unwise choice or decision.