I challenge you to challenge yourself and see what habits can do for your career.
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To my surprise, that simple habit has done wonders for my career, professional relationships, and productivity. Kenway’s unique focus on people and culture encouraged me to build the habit of being onsite, even though we are fully equipped to be remote consultants. But it’s actually the opposite! Building strong habits makes the easy success factors routine and secondary, enabling you to not only get out of your comfort zone but thrive in it.īefore coming to Kenway, 100 percent of my work week was spent working remotely away from my clients and away from my colleagues. I know encouraging habits seems to negate what everyone says about getting out of your comfort zone and getting comfortable staying there. I’m happy to report that after two weeks of focus, the habit has stuck and has increased my productivity and overall feeling of accomplishment in my day. This second iteration provided me with both the timeframe and the focus that I needed. Following the MVP model, I shifted my assumption to creating a list of three things that I would like to achieve before 8 o’clock. Although that effort helped to encourage me to find other things to get done between the time I got home from work and the time I was ready to relax (8 o’clock) I still felt like sometimes I would wander around aimlessly for a few hours rather than actually be productive.
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At first, I committed to myself that I would not sit down in front of my TV until after 8pm. In my own life, I wanted to make being productive after work a habit.
You shouldn’t give up on habit building either. But you must be committed – no company would abandon a potentially profitable concept after just one failed market test.
Utilizing the MVP theory allows you to build habits that work for YOU. It doesn’t pay to invest too much of anything into something that isn’t going to work. When you’ve finally proved your assumption, continue to add “functionality” until you reach your goal: If I wake up 10 minutes earlier every week, I will eventually make it to 6:30 a.m.If your experiment fails, try something new and continue to iterate until something works: If I put my alarm across the room, getting out of bed to turn it off will wake me up.Identify an assumption that would help support your habit and test it for a short period of time: It will be easier to wake up if I use a song as my alarm sound.Start with your goal or your vision: I want to wake up early.You could start small with just the basic concept of the habit and continue to test, iterate and add on “functionality” until you reach your intended goal. So, what would happen if we applied the same theory behind the MVP to building a habit (instead of a product)? The Minimal Viable Habit.
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The MVP is then tested to see how the market responds to it before a model is built with the full set of features. In case you aren’t familiar with the term, an MVP is a product with only the core functionality needed. To help us get there, I’m going to lean on a fundamental technical concept – the Minimal Viable Product (MVP). But what if it didn’t have to be hard to build habits to further your career? I know I’d be all in.
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