Don't Push Too Many Trolleys

3Keep Life in Perspective

I have to begin my list of principles with this one about perspective, because your perspective literally colours everything you do. Your perspective is how you see things. But it is also how you choose to see things. For the most part, you cannot choose how things are (we are only partially in control of our destiny), only how you see them. We can all struggle, at times, to keep life in perspective. We can get blinkered by our problems that, though seem huge to us, are usually fairly trivial in the grand scheme of things.

Life is easier to navigate when you stay grounded.

One of the most important ways in which I keep my working life in perspective is by being actively involved in the inductions for all new members of staff when they join the company. I speak to them en masse on their first day to give them some background on me and the company. I especially want to impress upon them our strong collaborative culture. I think it's really important for me to establish a relationship with anyone who comes to work in my company, no matter how big the workforce grows. And it reminds me what it feels like to enter a big organization, full of expectation, with everything to learn. I want every new recruit to feel that they have been acknowledged by me, personally, and I need to be able to share my vision of the company with everyone. I need to show them what my “why” is. But, I tell them, they must find their own “why.” I can show people what inspired me, ...