You have lists on lists of what is left to do. But you only have so much time left. So now comes the hard part, you can’t do it all and you can either try to or you can start throwing turnips off the truck. The idea of throwing turnips off the truck is that you are not going to get everything you wanted when you first started out on your journey, but you will…
The difference between Good and Great is the outcome. Good talent focus on the outcome, the outcome is all that matters, the prize at the end, the bonus, the award, the gift. Great talent focuses on the work to be done knowing the outcome will take care of itself. If the work happens, everything else will fall into place. It’s all in the approach working towards the same outcome.
Your new project, your latest endeavor, the next idea you have. Something will break. Something will not work. Something will blow up in your face (maybe on an important Zoom call). Something will go wrong. It’s life, don’t harp on it if it happens to someone else, don’t let it get you down if it happens to you. Something always goes wrong, move on from it.
Successes build strength and courage to try what is next. There is always success in failure… An idea you tried that didn’t quite pan out, but now you know. The code didn’t work as a product but could be a feature. The process that missed the mark, but exposed the cracks that you never saw before. There is success in everything, if you are willing to look for it.
Software that is stable. Software that delivers on the features that you downloaded it for. Software that is simple and intuitive to use. Do the core features work from release to release? Those are the basics of any software solution that from release to release should always be there. Everything else is an add-on bonus, but the core, the core should never be buggy.