Transforming a life from Fragile to Agile with Mihri

If you are not working in the Software industry, you might never hear about Agile. If you don't drink wine, you might never see the big word Fragile on the wine box. But the two terms, two concepts, you should know. Because These two are just such vivid concepts that we can describe how we run our life!

Dreams drive life. To run life, make your dreams come true, and achieve the best life is to create! That's the best way to achieve your dream life. However, Creating a dream life could be painful. Cautiously moving every step, as if you were carrying that wine box, the big printed word Fragile is grasping your hands and legs. That's what I call Fragile Living, Cautious Living!

When you apply consciousness in your life management, Fragile turn into Agile! Agile Living, Conscious Living.

Everyone should know Agile living, It's a great framework to manage your personal life. It is easy to apply, and powerful enough to push your life to the next level.

What is Agile? Different people with different background always give you answer from different angles, basically depending on how they experience Agile. People say, "It is an approach."," It is a framework.", "It is a concept."

When you apply Agile to your personal life development, what people say about Agile won't matter. What matter is Agile makes your life get running as you wish. It requires the right way to apply. What does it mean by ''In the right way''. Well, It is like when you use a product you need to follow the manual, and operate it properly .sometime if you don't do so, you might burn yourself even though the purpose of the product exists is to make your life easy. What is the manual of Agile? It is the Agile Manifesto, and It is a legend. People work in the Agile field, and the very first thing they need to know is the Agile manifesto. It is literally like a bible of the Agile world. It is a set of values and principles, and it is a set of beliefs. Agile has its flexibility which supports people to be flexible in their life management.

In the Agile manifesto, the values, principles, and beliefs have a specific power to keep people focused and positive. It is essential on our journey to create our dream life.

Any dream does not come true over night, It takes time, we all understand. But we normally dont really get it why it takes ages sometimes.

The hardest part of creating dream life is decision making. It is full of complexity. Involves to much thinking from various person. The set of beliefs in Agile Manifesto helps teams and individual to make better decisions, and by that create better solutions for problems. To have better and faster decision in your life, you need to have clarity about what and how you going to achieve. Step-by step is the best approach to get there. Agile is the exactly what you need. The simple definition of agile is step-by-step. Take something big, and break the most urgent thing into smaller pieces. By taking small steps you can see clearly if you're doing the right thing. If not, you can adjust course.Agile believes only doing can make things happen.No matter how small action is, as long as start taking action. you will see the moving is happening.

Throughout the whole life cycle of what you are creating, when you are taking action and making decisions, you will see the value and principles of Agile.

The Agile way of creating your life is not about how well you are ready or how hard you work. It is about how consciously you take action and make decisions throughout the journey of creating life. It is the value of Agile living. No matter how well you predefined the process. Agile living is about how well you can handle or embrace changing situations without getting lost. It is more about individual and interaction. The predefined process will be irrelevant if someone or a team can consciously interact with various problems.

Creating life is building your workable software, Not a well-written storybook of your life. If you are one of those who like spending more time on paperwork to dump your mind, This is one value you will get from Agile. The time you spend on ''trying it out'' is valuable. Unfortunately, too much paperwork means you are unconsciously extending the deadline of your ''life software.''

The number three value of the Agile way of creating life is collaboration. You are your customer; you are making a life for yourself; you are serving yourself; Instead of keeping yourself in a predefined way of producing. Try to allow yourself to change your requirement. Communicate and collaborate with yourself, and make sure the changes give you a positive outcome.

The number four value of Agile living is how you respond to changing plans. The fixed plan doesn't mean always working as we expected. So rather than stick to the non-workable plan, be flexible and look for a better solution.

In the next blog, we will talk about the 12 principles of Agile living. That's all today's shippable delivery.