{"id":15986,"date":"2022-01-17T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diariodiunconsulente.it\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2022-01-17T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:05:38","slug":"2022-time-to-change-your-pace-and-not-necessarily-your-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diariodiunconsulente.it\/en\/2022\/01\/17\/2022-time-to-change-your-pace-and-not-necessarily-your-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"2022: time to change your pace and not (necessarily) your goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alice Alessandri<\/a> and Alberto Aleo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The beginning of the new year is an occasion for new resolutions, goal<\/b> setting and motivations towards change<\/b>. This year 2022<\/b> will mark a turning point for Passodue: the firm will celebrate its 10 <\/b>years of activity <\/b>(we will soon tell you our story in a series of video<\/b><\/span>s<\/b><\/span><\/a>), Alberto will mark his 50th <\/b>birthday, we\u2019ll be back in Boston<\/b> after 2 years and 3 editorial projects <\/b>will see the light. There are all the reasons to be tempted by the novelties and the desire for innovation. However, are we really sure that the rhetoric of change<\/b> is always valid and that we always need new goals to motivate ourselves to grow<\/b>? The vast majority of people know what they want but don\u2019t have the patience<\/b> and, most of all, don\u2019t give themselves time to achieve it. The temporal dimension of success <\/b>is really underestimated and for this reason in our first article of 2022 we want to suggest how to\u00a0give <\/span>new rhythm to old goals<\/span>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Losing time and losing the<\/i> tempo<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

Every year about 40 organizations <\/b><\/span><\/a>turn to Passodue: they ask us for help to increase their turnover<\/b>, expand the number of clients <\/b>and their satisfaction<\/b>, define new strategies <\/b>and many other things. At the beginning of our consultations, when we try to understand what has been done before our intervention, we are often presented with strategies and tools that were well designed but were not given the right amount of time to mature and bear their fruits. Companies often decide to change before even realizing if what they have planned is working or not. These sudden and constant changes of direction <\/b>have several negative effects<\/span>: they demotivate people, stress the structure and don\u2019t capitalize on the know-how <\/i>of the business, <\/i>making it difficult to learn from its\u00a0 <\/span>f<\/b><\/span>ailures<\/b><\/span>. When we point out that they haven\u2019t\u00a0 <\/span>properly considered the temporal dimension of their business strategy,<\/b> the alibi behind which they hide is often \u201cwe didn\u2019t have time\u201d. \u201cNot having time\u201d doesn\u2019t mean anything<\/b>, given that days last 24 hours both for people who succeed and for those who fail.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time is a <\/i>relative <\/i><\/b>dimension, <\/i>qualitative<\/i><\/b> rather than quantitative. That\u2019s why saying \u201cI don\u2019t have time\u201d is like claiming that you have no interest in caring<\/b><\/a><\/i> about that particular project or activity.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Let\u2019s add another important consideration: wasting people\u2019s time is one of the most serious relational violations<\/b><\/span>. This means that if you don\u2019t give people the right amount of time to achieve the goals they have set or if you engage them in continuous changes of direction, you are literally mistreating them. Therefore ethic<\/b><\/span>s<\/b><\/span>\u00a0also needs the right rhythm!<\/span><\/p>\n

Masters of rhythm\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cPatience is the virtue of the strong\u201d<\/b>, in fact this is an essential quality also in the workplace. What is the real meaning of being patient and why are so many people unable to exercise their patience<\/b>, especially when it comes to business?<\/span><\/p>\n

To answer this question we must destroy the myth that being patient simply means being able to wait; in fact it implies understanding the rhythm <\/b>and acting accordingly<\/span>. Matching the concept of patience<\/b> with the idea of waiting leads us to believe that it is a passive quality. Nothing could be more wrong:<\/span><\/p>\n

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being patient means being able to <\/i>listen<\/i><\/b> to situations, people, contexts and tuning in to the right pace to facilitate their synergetic functioning.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Successful people have a natural talent for this active process of reading the tempo<\/b>, which can also be trained. How? Starting with two essential exercises:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n