Recently I was in a meeting with my management team.
A question was raised.
There was a millisecond available to me to choose whether to justify our current position, or to question it.
The moment was only a fraction of a second.
Fortunately I chose to question our position.
It opened up a can of worms.
I had to admit I was wrong.
That led to some tough decisions being made and some uncomfortable conversations.
And we are a better organisation as a result.
Life is a series of moments, and in each of those moments doors open.
Sometimes the doors don’t stay open beyond those moments.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.