My job involves sometimes dealing with information that can’t necessarily be shared with everyone at the company. I have an official mentor, who’s a senior employee who used to work in my group and is now in another. I put off setting up a mentorship meeting for months because I was working on a project and didn’t know whether I could talk about it with him. All I needed to do was send my manager a quick email to check, but I just kept putting it off.
On the flip side, I’ve had instances where adding a trivial inconvenience has been key to breaking a bad habit. For example, in college I was on the top bunk of a bunkbed for two years, Those years, I’d put my alarm clock down off the bed so that I’d have to get out of bed to turn off the alarm, at which point I’d never be tempted to snooze it and go back to sleep.
My job involves sometimes dealing with information that can’t necessarily be shared with everyone at the company. I have an official mentor, who’s a senior employee who used to work in my group and is now in another. I put off setting up a mentorship meeting for months because I was working on a project and didn’t know whether I could talk about it with him. All I needed to do was send my manager a quick email to check, but I just kept putting it off.
On the flip side, I’ve had instances where adding a trivial inconvenience has been key to breaking a bad habit. For example, in college I was on the top bunk of a bunkbed for two years, Those years, I’d put my alarm clock down off the bed so that I’d have to get out of bed to turn off the alarm, at which point I’d never be tempted to snooze it and go back to sleep.