As I’ve said in a previous post, the recession and the negative connotations of business is a result of inefficiency at the top of the hierarchy. There is no bigger indicator of this than in the IT industry, and particularly when it comes to anything web-related. (I can say that because I’ve spent over five years in said industry.)
As I tell anyone when they press me about my job, managers (in particular) have been the bane of my existence. Managers in the IT industry effectively act as a layer between the hard-working front line (the developers and designers) and the upper levels (the people who appear to not do very much). The strange thing is, in the IT industry there are usually far more of these managers than there are workers. There are managers for everything from accounts and projects to monitoring the amount of espresso beans left in the cupboard.
All of these managers have one thing in common – they know dick all about the Internet. They don’t know how to build or design web sites, or even what the purpose of a web site is. A lot of the time, they don’t even know how to manage. One wonders how the hell they’ve managed to land – or keep – their jobs. (There are some that know how to manage, but every time I’ve met one, they’ve left the respective company not long afterwards.)
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Hi folks.
Well I hope your V Day was a heck of a lot better than mine. Let’s just say that, rather than blow my limited expectations out of the water, it’s solidified and confirmed my belief in fate: that whatever is going to happen was always going to happen, and that nothing can change that.
Let me explain.
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Yes folks, the bearer of positivity and all things wonderful has yet another rant. But there is a purpose behind this particular rant: it’s in anticipation of the upcoming V Day – my least favourite day of the year, for reasons that should be obvious by now. If you’re going to be single by next Sunday, my thoughts are with you.
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For the first time in a long time, I genuinely thought I was going insane. It wasn’t the first time that I thought I’d eventually end up in a padded cell or solitary confinement, but somehow it felt like it’s the closest I’ve been. (Mental note: watching almost four seasons of Oz back to back doesn’t seem to have helped matters.)
But if I have appeared to be insane, or at least mentally deranged this week, it’s because I’m angry with myself. I’m angry because I chose to go against my instinct – my gut feeling – and it backfired, because my instinct had been absolutely right.
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At the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar last year, I took what was at the time a rather suicidal plunge into the final activity: breaking an arrow using only your neck. (It’s not quite as scary as it sounds.)
The idea of the exercise was to use the arrow as a metaphor for a held “limiting belief” – when the arrow was broken, the limiting belief would be shattered. Each person who took part wrote down their limiting belief on the arrow before starting.
I hinted at this exercise in my Insight #3, where I mentioned the lesson of hesitation being painful; that one has to take the chance and do something before it’s too late. The key to the arrow-breaking exercise was to move quickly into the arrow, so that the person would not feel pain in their neck.
I didn’t die from the exercise, and although I moved slowly and hesitantly into the arrow, I managed to break it into two pieces and one splinter. What a rush.
But while others’ arrows splintered into several pieces, when I examined the pieces of my arrow, the words of the limiting belief I’d written on it had remained intact.
Those words were:
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
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