Imagine you were hired to be the CEO of You Inc. How would you plan to grow your company?
You would create goals, assign resources, give regular feedback, try to inspire great performance by empowering and enabling. You would use words of encouragement, be patient, focus on inputs as much as you would focus on outcomes (or maybe more). You would always operate from a place of optimism and trust.
Would you, as the CEO or as an employee of You Inc, tolerate the language you sometimes use to berate yourself? Absolutely not.
Would you focus only on the negatives and the shortcomings? Absolutely not.
Would you spend all your energy on living in the past and crying over previous quarters’ performances? Absolutely not.
So please go do the right thing and manage You Inc like a professional.