What’s your next job? What’s your next project? What’s your next task? What’s the next goal you want to achieve? What’s the next vacation I’m going to take? Everyone needs a “What’s Next?”, not because you need to overload yourself and never take a break but rather because you need to have something to look forward to, something that can give you something to look forward to. The next is what drives us forward, and…
Ever looked at a project and thought – “This is a gut job”? Take it right down to the bare bones, save nothing, and start all over again, from the foundation up? It’s our first instinct when something is wrong – “Let me rebuild it the way I would do it.” But what we often forget when it comes to the Gut Jobs; The overages (because they will happen). Living through it (because you will…
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…