Life is a video game. You start at level one and work your way up step by step.
Sometimes you learn new skills and improve – that's the buff. And then there are moments when you take one or two steps back and feel like you're not your best self anymore – that's the nerf.
After more than 15 years in HR management, during which I spent a long time buffing myself, I've reached the point where 95% of my job is to give these buffs to other people around me. Although I have a senior management position, I am known in my corporation for almost exclusively wearing Converse. A desperate attempt to stay young, or a declaration of loyalty. The rubber soles at least give me the illusion of staying grounded.
Buffs In Chucks
So this is what can be found here in the future. My job mostly consists of talking to people. Persuading them, appealing to them, and sometimes talking them out of something. In these conversations, which take place in front of an audience of a hundred participants or even one-on-one, anecdotes, metaphors, and "Management Advices" arise, which, with a bit of luck, stick with my counterpart. It is an indescribable feeling when someone you have never dealt with before uses a metaphor that you yourself designed and circulated a few years ago.
Sharing is caring, and that's what I want to do here regularly. Not without self-interest. I want to share ideas with a larger audience and test them. I want to put them in the ring. If they can be knocked out by someone, great! Then maybe it wasn't as good as I thought. Therefore, I hope for your feedback and comments. And thus, the cycle closes and I buff myself a little bit again.
But what does all this have to do with Eisenhower?
The Eisenhower Matrix is a management tool that helps prioritize correctly.
On the x-achsis, you'll find urgent and not urgent. On the y-achsis you'll find important and unimportant. This way, we create a matrix. The Eisenhower matrix.
Starting my blog buffsinchucks.com was always very important to me, but it was never urgent.
That changes now. It's time to put planned things into action. Today I am in a hotel in Brussels. Yesterday, two people were killed in a terrorist attack in this city. Such events remind us of the finiteness of life and make things that previously weren't urgent appear in a new timeframe.
Und so beginnt es. Ich freue mich auf eure Kommentare. Wenn ihr mich auf dieser Reise begleiten und den einen oder anderen Buff für euch selbst mitnehmen möchtet, dann abonniert den Newsletter oder folgt mir auf Twitter unter @buffsinchucks um keinen neuen Eintrag zu verpassen.
Thank you and see you in the next post in a few days!
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