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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

Work

  • Learning something for the first time

    It’s always a challenge to understand that 1 plus 1 is equal to 2, especially when it’s your first time hearing about the concept of addition. As the lessons progress to 2 times 2 is equal to 4, you open yourself up to more and more ideas, possibilities, and connections. And then you begin to… Read more

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  • Doing your best

    Doing your best is as important as seeking to serve the very people you want to reach. I can remember how the referral from a delighted customer kept a food business moving and growing. And my friend pointed out that people only talk about something they’d be proud to tell a friend. So whatever work… Read more

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  • Our obsession with measurements

    Chasing the leaderboard sometimes undermines our ability to produce valuable content. Because instead of doing the work that changes a culture, we succumb to producing content that gets more likes, listens, or hits. And remember school? Some people, instead of studying to learn, they are studying to pass. And that’s becoming a problem as others… Read more

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  • Giving your best every time

    If you still ask yourself whether you need to give your best every time (or not), then you might find yourself out of job in the long run, or worse, be on the same job but lacking in motivation and zeal. Listening to a health worker giving the same instructions (again and again for different… Read more

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  • When opportunities come

    I’ve first read about the term ‘career capital‘ from Cal Newport’s book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, and that you can build it this way (emphasis mine): “If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up “career capital” by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this… Read more

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  • Experience, trends, and other things we can learn from a hairdresser

    As I was talking with the hairdresser while admiring his expertise, I began to ask him questions like: How long have you been doing this work? How do you upskill for the latest trends? How’s the business going, comparing then and now? And with these simple questions which, I believe, engaged him enough to tell… Read more

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  • What burnout looks like

    In one way or another, you have heard about burnout when one of your colleagues complains about how burnt out they are, especially with the never-ending work they still bring beyond office hours. From ‘A career change saved my life’: the people who built better lives after burnout: Burnout is the name given to the… Read more

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