Everything can and will go wrong. Your plans will go sideways. The idea you had to build on a platform, that platform went bust. What you thought would work, will no longer work. The API interface you are building against will be deprecated in 3 months. You can either rant and rave about the situation you’re in, about everything going wrong, or you can embrace the calamity and chart a new path. Five years ago,…
Instead of waiting till the end of the day to ask this question or have this question to be asked of yourself, let’s rephrase it and retime it. At the beginning of the day – “How do you want your day to be?” Start there, take 5 minutes, how do you want to answer this question at the end of the day? Now make that your day. Make your day, don’t let it happen to…
1 – Something. 2 – Something Else. 3 – Something Again. You can pick your three reasons, make them up, make them harder and tougher as your work goes by, make them stack on each other, or simply make them so out of this world that you never have to deal with them again. Or you can ignore them and get to work. There will always be reasons and there will always be naysayers, but…
No one wants to be the last pick, but eventually we are. Whether it’s the school you want to attend, the job you want, the dodgeball team, etc, etc. Sometimes you are the last pick. What matters next is what you do knowing you were the last pick. Do you sit and complain about being the last pick or do you move forward and do something with it? Prove why you shouldn’t have been the…
That works in TV and Movies – pull up a screen (any screen) – blip, blap, bloop and you’ve got a working system that is up and running and ready to save the world. Of course that isn’t how it works ever. It takes time, patience, consistency, showing up each day, not throwing in the towel, going back to the drawing board, dealing with the setbacks, trying again and again. And have we mentioned the…