One thing about routine is that you have a very good chance of excelling, when you know you can pause and reflect and then enhance your current way and eventually become better and better. Whether you have a desk job, or you simply go to the GYM to exercise; Routine Habits is a great way to become “better” at where you are.

As defined in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online: “Routine” is

• • a usual or fixed way of doing things:There’s no set/fixed routine at work – every day is different.He checks under the car for bombs as a matter of routine.

• a regular series of movements, jokes, or similar things used in a performance:an exercise/dance routine He went into his usual “I’m the head of the family” routine (= usual way of speaking).

Let us say that you started a new job and you really don’t know the rules, or you moved to a new country where everything is still new to you, How would you handle yourself? of course you will eventually need to learn more about how things are done from some source, nevertheless you can be un-productive and “on-hold” until you do… or you need to start acting until you figure something out.

Everyday, on my way to my office, mostly taking the same route, once I’m on the highway, the speed limit is 100 KM/h with a buffer of 20 KM/h => meaning that you are allowed to speed up to 120 KM/h on that highway and beyond that  limit, you would get a speeding ticket.

At some points, as I’m moving at the speed of 120 KM/h, I find that most cars around me (doing the same) feel like they are NOT-MOVING, since all of us are moving at the same speed, so things shows as if we are all stable while we are all moving at a high speed; So as a general rule for me, whenever I’m taking a road that I am not aware of its current speed limit, I just mimic the speed of “most” of other cars… Until I see a speed limit sign :).

So this week’s tip, is about understanding the patterns around you, until you figure out how things are done on your own, and creating your own pattern.

So how do you do that?

Look, Learn, Take notes and then Mimic.

At the beginning you may not fully understand why you are doing things in that way, but afterwards, you would, and only then you would start linking what you are doing to what you need to be doing… and Start Excelling in what you do. Use the power of the Crowd!

Have a nice Week!

Cheers,
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Samer Chidiac is a Sr. Strategist, Author & an International Innovation Expert.

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