Do whatever challenges you and helps you to become better.įinally, have the energy and the courage to look where most people are afraid to look in… the mirror.Bobby Pontillas discusses chasing dreams and his animation journey. Try to learn from it, understand why it happened, how it happened, and what caused it to happen.Īnd like Eleonor Roosevelt said, “Do one thing every day that scares you.” Don’t be afraid to fail, and when you do, fail forward. What I am trying to convey is that we should always reflect and try to move forward.

To understand myself better, to try to uncover problems that I am not yet aware of, and to incorporate data points as I move along. That gives me the freedom to better my process as I move forward. You can better your process, and that will help you to continuously better yourself.įor example, nowadays, I use a notebook to write down my thoughts. There’s always more to learn and to experiment. The important thing when this happens is not to comfort yourself. But it was a very enlightening moment for me I could visualize the problem, compartmentalize it in smaller ones, and finally come up with different experiments to try to tackle it.Ĭontinuous Iterations and Betterment of the Process I guess what the Aha Moment makes you feel differs from person to person. My Aha Moment came during one of our marketing meetings, where we were trying to solve problems on our marketing funnel. And that I wasn’t just taking on stuff to take them on. That means that I started thinking more about each decision I make. Did I do the right thing? What if that in some weird way can produce high value? Are they going to think that I don’t want to do the job? But that’s not bad at all. In the beginning, I was always second-guessing myself. Saying no to things that were not urgent nor high value, and I could explain the “Why?”.ĭoing that won’t be effortless at all. I felt comfortable handing stuff to others. Thus, you accelerate your growth.Īfter I started using it within the first month, I was able to find things that make me happy and I made time for them.Īnd I started getting closer to my AHA Moment.

Finally, your brain starts thinking about all those above, and you start creating meaningful habits.

What truly matters for you? What bothers you?

It helps you understand your subconscious.

You can plan your day, and make sure that you daily include the 20% that creates 80% of the value that you are going to develop ( Pareto Principle).

And I am a firm believer that when you start doing something you’ve never done before, you need to try ways that work for others first. My Process / Framework:įor me, to hold myself accountable, I purchased the “The High-Performance Planner,” a 2-in-1 day planner and journal. This way, you will be able to find patterns, understand what triggers you, what you are not that good at, and, most importantly, where you should focus on becoming better. One of the things that helped me the most was to write down how I was feeling in both cases, what I was working on, with whom I collaborated that day, how the weather was like, etc. There are going to be days that everything you put your energy in is going to be completely wrong, and other days you will be the best performer. But what makes them stand out is that they never stopped trying to better themselves, learn, and lead by example. Even the most successful people like Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Stephen King, Michael Jordan, and many others, in the beginning, they were not extraordinaire, they were not just born this way, and they made a lot of mistakes, like all of us.

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