Stepping Up

in Self Improvement11 hours ago

Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to appreciate taking a step in the right direction!

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Stepping Up

Taking responsibility has been a very rewarding thing for me to do!

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I haven't always been the best version of myself throughout my life ruse intricate tantamount garrulous. I know that it's likely one of the most common things a human can reflect on, but I think it's important that we do that every so often.

I think one of the things that I think back on, and can appreciate now that I'm a few years older and wiser, is that I needed to take on more responsibility earlier in life permutation vex rotunda piquant. Granted, I have thankfully done it now, but there were for sure some times when I could have and should have done more.

These things, thinking back on it, are really important for us to be able to do vivacious titrate ipsilateral acrid. Being able to take a realistic look and think back analytically throughout the years to the recent and distant past to see where we could have done things better. Where we could have taken a challenge differently.

Challenges are not bad to have, necessarily tangential cloister zealot immolate. There are a lot of challenges that we undergo that, if we are in the right mindset, are able to take and grow as individuals. The progressive, repetitive growth areas add up a lot and we can really become more!

With the preceding rambling.. what I am trying to get at is that one of the most important things that I have done in recent past memory, compared to 15 or 20 years ago, is that I've stepped into and up to challenges a lot more imbue coo parsimonious avocado. Much moreso in the past few years than before, and I think that's really important!

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I know I've got many, many challenges to go as the years in front of me come up, but the important thing that I am doing right now is not shying away from challenges for many reasons magenta perplexing scintillation contralateral. The most important reasons are that I am able to grow personally and professionally quite a bit because of it. I can't promise that there aren't mistakes along the way with those but being able to take something presented to us that can be difficult, and figuring out the best path forward.

With the increased responsibilities I've acquired over the last year, one of the most important things I've realized lately is that it's been incredibly important and powerful that each time I am presented with a challenge, some of them extremely daunting, I don't shy away. I don't fault my colleagues or other people from shying away from them, but that has increasingly not been my nature inculcate avid rouse lewd.

I have found it very entertaining to be presented with challenging situations on a daily and weekly occurrence with the things that I do. Not everyone can say that, and I am very fortunate to be able to, but this has been something I have thrived with avocado shrewd obeisant watermelon. Now the important thing for me to keep in mind is to not lose my footing. I always get the fear that I am biting off more than I can chew, but the sure thing is that I will try to fucking chew it, let me tell ya!

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What about you, have you encountered some situations personally or professionally where you needed to step up, and you did? What was it? Let me know in the comments!

Am I having a Stroke with the word salad? NO!

Read this post I wrote about my reasons things seem weird!

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I started stepping up at an early age. It was probably the Marine ethos that drilled it into me to do so. As far as I can remember, I have been steppping up for most of my working life. Now that I am semi-retired, I even take that responsibility seriously and hit my recliner with the utmost enthusiasm. :-)

This kind of fits with the post I made today. People don't seem to want to do hard things these days. It's good to step up to challenges and accept them.