Tag: The Future Of Work

Take Personal Responsibility, Start Living Your Real Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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No one is responsible for your life. No one is responsible for your thoughts. No one is responsible for your dreams. No one is responsible for your future. Why is that? Because your future belongs to you. Your life is yours. Your dreams are yours. You are responsible for making your life happen. If you are waiting for other people to come and help you, to lift you up, to make you bigger than you are, you are going to wait forever.

Don’t wait. Start living your life. Because you have waited long enough. Instead of waiting for other people, why not take your own personal responsibility? Why not take charge of your own life? Why not? What are you still waiting for?

If you are still waiting for the right time to start living your life, know this: ‘Whether you are living your life or not, life is not waiting for you. Life is always moving forward.’ So if you want to improve yourself, you must take responsibility for your life. When you take responsibility for your life, you stop blaming other people. You stop blaming your government. You stop blaming your parents. You stop blaming your teachers. You stop blaming yourself. When you take responsibility for your life, that is where you start to live your life. You stop waiting for other people to rescue you. You start living your life. You start doing things that are meaningful, things that make you happy. You start facing your fears. You start attracting positive things into your life.

Because you attract who you are, not who you are not. If you don’t want to be controlled by others, you must take responsibility for your life. If you do not have the courage to control your thoughts, your thoughts will take charge of your life. If you do not control your feelings, your feelings will control you. If you don’t take responsibility for your actions, your actions will control you. Your actions will take charge of your life.

When that happens, you are no longer living your life; you are living by default. You are not living your own life; you are living the life designed by other people. Please don’t let that happen to you. Because you are bigger than your circumstances. If you don’t want to be controlled by other people, you must take responsibility for your life.

When you take responsibility for your life, things change. You change. Your life changes. It is through taking responsibility for your life that you make yourself stronger, better. Because taking personal responsibility frees you to take care of what is important to you, to face your fears, to do the hard things that you have been avoiding.

Taking personal responsibility for your life gives you the freedom to choose your future, to do what you love. When you take your own personal responsibility, you can create a solution to the problem you are trying to solve. When you take personal responsibility for your life, you stop blaming other people for your failures. When you take personal responsibility for your life, you create more opportunities for yourself.

Remember, your life doesn’t change when you think about changing your life. Your life changes when you take responsibility for your life.

Whatever it is that is holding you back from taking reponsibility for your life, let it go.

This Is The Future Of Work

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘While portions of many jobs will change, and some jobs will likely be eliminated entirely, many more jobs will evolve.‘

‘The challenge we face when working wih technology is to use it to augment workers, not replace them. Although replacement can create greater efficiency and cost savings, it does not create new value.’

‘The top three skills needed to survive in the future of work are complex problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity, according to the World Economic Forum.’

‘If there is no organization or structure that holds people, it creates pressures that can be very different for an individual to face alone.’

‘As work becomes more borderless, with more collaboration happening virtually, where work gets done will continue to change, too.’

‘The solo effect occurs when different departments or teams within an organization fail to communicate, and undermine productivity as a result. Two departments could be working on the same initiative, or at cross purposes, without knowing it.’

‘Doing more of the same, and doing it faster, is not where the magic happens- the magic is when workers and teams can solve new problems and create new value, services, and relationships.’

‘Business leaders face critical choices that will determine whether their workers are marginalized or empowered, and creating value or merely cutting costs.’

‘Transition nets are designed to help develop careers in the flow of life … They reflect the challenges of lives that include a dozen jobs, and that are not static or predictable.’

‘The social … imperative we are face to invest in education and transitions will allow us to build a more productive economy and a fair society.’

Source:

Jeff Schwartz, Suzanne Riss, and Tom Fishburne (2021). Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work.