"What will be, will be." - The Foreign Exchange, Laughing At Your Plans
Prompt 07: Achievement Unlocked
What goal did you set for yourself and achieve this year? Did you achieve something you didn't think you could? Did you win an award? Did you set a record? Did you finally get your VCR from 1985 to stop blinking 12:00?
Let's go back and look at the 2011 Personal Operating Plan:
In everything I do this year, the goal is to Provide Value. In my personal life, I will be more deliberate with my Kindness and Compassion. I will also Love Harder. Health and Wellness will be a priority. Professionally and creatively, I will embrace Breaking Some Eggs, Breaking Some Rules, and Challenging the Status Quo.
Looking at specifics goals therein, I'll focus here on the career ones:
Provide value. Instill values. Showcase and Celebrate that value.
When I wrote this, I had no clue the amount of change and upheaval was to come. I couldn't imagine how much we'd have to pivot (to use one of the more common corporate culture words from this past year) and still, we did what I said we would.
I end the year feeling even more confident that we are on the right track, that we have successfully showcased who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
And that we provide value. When we understand the mission and are given the tools necessary (and often even when we don't), we can obliterate expectations. We did so several times in 2011, particularly over the last six months.
I leveled up this year and I'm damn proud of it and I'm reminded of the good work we do every morning when I visit the digital home of the mouse.
Soundtrack to this post
- The Perfect Plan by Wale
- Laughing At Your Plans by The Foreign Exchange
- Plans (replanned by Mogwai) by Bloc Party
- the new workout plan by Kanye West