No fires to fight.

Sometimes, we get so used to fighting fires that we don't know what to do when there are no fires to put out anymore.

One tendency, then, can be to look out for more fires to put out, and another (disastrous, to say the least) can be to light fires, consciously or subconsciously, so that we can put them out.

A different and more productive approach, though, is to become comfortable with living without any fires and instead, embrace a life of forward motion. We ship and bring change not because it is a crisis, we do it because we are in a position to make things better.

Shifting these gears is not easy and requires patience and sustained emotional labour.