Yet Changes Everything
Yet …
changes everything.
“No … not YET …”
“I haven’t finished that … YET …”
“I haven’t achieved that … YET …”
We live and work in a world with a deficit-focused mentality and much attention is given to what is lacking, what hasn’t been done, and what hasn’t been achieved. It isn’t good for either our personal, or team, productivity and wellbeing.
In a planning session to kick-off the new year, a client lamented on the to-do’s they are carrying over, and the inability to cross them off the list before last year ended. It feels like a failure, despite the fact that the world - or theirs - hasn’t been catastrophically impacted by this lack of doing. In fact, when we went a little deeper, many of these things are undone for very good reasons.
Thinking about yet in this context can change everything. When we add yet to the statement, we are acknowledging that these things are a focus and they remain important to us. They haven’t happened … yet.
When we accept yet as part of our vocabulary, we are acknowledging that we are not machines, life happens and things can change.
As we start a new week, how might a change of focus from the prevailing deficit mentality to one of yet help you move forward?