The first day you are coming back, you say you are tired of the way you have been doing things. You are embarrassed by yourself. “Now it’s time to change.”
Day one, full of spirit. Yeah, a good guy working hard, now in the ideal self.
Day two, still the same.
Day three: “Hmm, let me skip this little thing today.”
Day 10, two things have been skipped already. You are pretending like you didn’t make a promise to yourself.
What happened?
The cycle repeats.
Still, you always return to your default mode:
Tired of putting garbage into the dustbin.
Filling up forms until the last minute.
The sloppy, the lazy mode.
Not bad, not good, but your body and mind somehow feel comfortable there. Yet your subconscious feels guilty, telling you: “You can do better than this.”
That’s you as a leader—the one we look up to. What do you think happens to us, your subordinates?
Worse than you might think.
We have adapted and put systems in our workplace to meet the minimum expectations. The work gets done.
But we can do much better. I bet on that.
In fact, you have tried to push us before, and we did better. But a few days later, you became quiet, and so did we. We returned to our default modes, just like you do.
If you are not in your ideals, we are not either.
If you want to get the best output from your organization, you have to fight yourself first. Come out of that rut.
Then push us—not once, but every day—to rise above it too.
We are not dumb. We are also culprits of this disease. So, we need constant reminders, and those reminders have to come from you when you are sober.
We need you to remain sharp every day, for both of us.
This is a never-ending battle.