User:Janina/Effectiveness

I want to be effective and get things done. When Kanthaus started it was all about "helping people achieve their greatest potential". I'm not there at the moment. I think I could do more, be a better agent of change. I think we could be a better collective of change-makers. To arrive there, I believe we need to ask the painful questions: Are you spending your time wisely? Is your project reaching its goal? Should you re-evaluate the benefit your work has for the world?

To be able to ask these questions productively we need to all feel safe and secure as part of a community that is not judging to exclude, but evaluating to support growth. It must be clear that we live, work and criticize in solidarity. That we are in this together and want to get better collectively.

I want to have a big, common, political project that we focus all our energy on. I want to feel the connection and satisfaction it would bring. I want us to commit and to plan together. And of course not all plans would come to fruition, there will be challenges and changes on the way. I want people to feel able to become a part of this future project, even though they don't know how much physical and/or mental capacity they will have when it's due. That it's clear that they can take time off if they need to. But that they won't want to, because it's going to be such an awesome project with such amazing team dynamics, where everybody contributes as best as they can. :)

Until then I want to talk about personal projects. I want to find a good format to focus on each individual, their work, their aims for it and how these things relate. I want us to get comfortable admitting that we might not spend our time exactly as we want and to turn to the group to find ways for improvement together. And I also want us to be comfortable admitting needing time for personal issues we might have and to boldly plan that time into our schedule.

This is not about pressuring people into having more output, it's about helping people who want to have more output becoming able to. This is not about shaming people who sometimes have low capacity, it's about finding ways to wholeheartedly be okay with that. This is about love, change and growing closer. This is about clarity, commitment and focus. This is about being effective in the goals we set for ourselves.

I still want to change the world. Don't you, too?