{"id":7051,"date":"2025-03-04T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/uncategorized\/so-very-nice-were-all-fucked-now-shall-we-get-to-work\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:09:55","slug":"so-very-nice-were-all-fucked-now-shall-we-get-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/governance\/so-very-nice-were-all-fucked-now-shall-we-get-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So, very nice! We&#8217;re all fucked now. Shall we get to work?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am reported to have said such a phrase at one of my leadership team meetings years ago, and I was reminded of it years later as a positive push-back phrase. At first it startled me, wondering if I had really allowed myself to say it, but then I realised that I still believe it today. <br\/><br\/>We whine because we are human. And that&#8217;s okay. You have to let the air out. But the question is &#8211; do we get stuck in, or do we take back our power and our strength (in corporate-speak, &#8216;responsibility&#8217;)?   <br\/><br\/>Whining is energy &#8211; it either keeps on spinning endlessly or we channel it into creating something. As a leader, a colleague or working with ourselves, it&#8217;s important to make the distinction between just venting and being ready to take action? If venting goes on for too long, it becomes a default state, part of the organisational culture, a debilitating passivity and an energy drain.  <br\/><br\/>Emotions are very ok and very natural and we can&#8217;t choose them, but we can always choose the reaction.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;So, very nice! We&#8217;re all fucked now. Shall we get to work?&#8221;<br\/>It&#8217;s not just a reminder that action leads to progress &#8211; it&#8217;s also an invitation to self-awareness. Am I whining because I&#8217;m tired? Under stress? Feeling unheard? Or is it just a habit?    <br\/><br\/>If we dare to look inside ourselves at what is really going on, we may find that what appears to be a problem is actually pointing in a direction.<br\/><br\/>So let&#8217;s &#8211; let&#8217;s fuck off. Let the emotion be, let it be. And then decide &#8211; do we stay there or move on? The real work always starts after the whining.   <br\/><br\/>And by work, I don&#8217;t mean going to work as usual, but work as a task of the soul, or &#8216;self-development&#8217; if that exhausted word is more appropriate.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vingumine.jpeg\" alt=\"I am reported to have said such a phrase at one of my leadership team meetings years ago, and I was reminded of it years later as a positive push-back phrase. At first it startled me, wondering if I had really allowed myself to say it, but then I realised that I still believe it today. &#10;&#10;We whine because we are human. And that's okay. You have to let the air out. But the question is - do we get stuck in, or do we take back our power and our strength (in corporate-speak, 'responsibility')?   &#10;&#10;Whining is energy - it either keeps on spinning endlessly or we channel it into creating something. As a leader, a colleague or working with ourselves, it's important to make the distinction between just venting and being ready to take action? If venting goes on for too long, it becomes a default state, part of the organisational culture, a debilitating passivity and an energy drain.    &#10;&#10;Emotions are very ok and very natural and we can't choose them, but we can always choose the reaction.&#10;&#10;&quot;So, very nice! We're all fucked now. Shall we get to work?&quot;  &#10;It is not only a reminder that action leads to progress - it is also an invitation to self-awareness. Am I whining because I'm tired? Under stress? Feeling unheard? Or is it just a habit?      &#10;&#10;If we dare to look inside ourselves at what is really going on, we may find that what appears to be a problem is actually pointing in a direction.  &#10;&#10;So let's - let's fuck off. Let the emotion be, let it be. And then decide - do we stay there or move on? The real work always starts after the whining.     &#10;&#10;And by work, I don't mean going to work as usual, but work as a task of the soul, or 'self-development' if that exhausted word is more appropriate.\" class=\"wp-image-7048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vingumine.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vingumine-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vingumine-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vingumine-600x452.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reported to have said such a phrase at one of my leadership team meetings years ago, and I was reminded of it years later as a positive push-back phrase. 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