“Easy decisions, hard life. Hard decisions, easy life”.

This is a quote from Jerzy Gregorek when he was interviewed by Tim Ferriss. As someone who’s not always direct with my expectations from staff, it’s resonated a lot. 

Maybe these situations resonate with you:

• Being too open-ended and not giving enough detail on expectations, which results in not receiving the results I wanted. 
• Not wanting to be direct with feedback, as you may be afraid to piss someone off or disrupt a working relationship 
• Overly micromanaging an employee to get the exact result I want
• Hiring an A player; but worried they might quit if I’m too harsh on feedback
• Hired a C player; but don’t want to deal with backfilling them so I let them skate along
• Re-doing someones work to meet your standard
• Handling customer service escalations 
• Managing payroll and bookkeeping 
• Purchasing every little thing for the front office & production

Each of those decisions on direct feedback seems to either add or remove weight from our shoulders. By not being direct with feedback, we’re creating a harder life for ourselves long-term.

Something to consider as you carry on this week with the same problem you were dealing with last week 🙂 

I’ll leave you with this great quote by restaurant owner, Will Guidara, “ Praise is affirmation, but criticism is investment.”