If you’ve had anything to do with the Occupational Health & Safety people you’ll know that even though they have no idea how to do something, they will always be able to tell you how to do it more safely. **cough**BS**cough**.

My last experience with them was when we were doing an outside survey.

We were taking GPS readings along a suburban street, mostly off the road.

The instruction was to wear safety boots, hi-vis jackets, a hard hat, and they wanted us to put out traffic cones.

I agreed with hi-vis, I questioned the need for safety boots since we were not in a construction zone, and I refused the hard hat claiming that if a UFO fell on me, a hard hat wasn’t going to save me, and that there was nothing else above where we were working.

I also refused the cones saying that we would be constantly moving and the cones would have to be on wheels to be of any use.

They did finally agree with me, but it was a fight.

Trying hard without thinking is a waste of time.

The hustle gene seems to be in all of us though, especially when we are starting something new.

It’s as if we think that we’ll “get it” if we just try harder, but that’s not usually the case.

Trying harder increases your stress levels, and makes you tense up which makes it harder to build the mental and muscle memories to make things easier.

The marines have a saying, “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”

It’s true.

Taking your time to learn how to do something does not mean procrastinating.

You still have to take action, but taking imperfect action will teach you how to do it faster than not taking action at all.

Regards
Brent.

P.S. Learning to accept the things that you don’t get perfect, which is most things, is the path to greater success.

It’s not hustling, it’s accepting that what you do will be flawed.

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