What got you here, wasn’t by a mistake. You made choices, took risks, practiced, put in the effort and you got here. Now, just because your here, is not the time to forget that. Now, is the time for you to remember and keep doing those things. Don’t switch it up and forget everything completely. The first iteration of this post is available here (but I forgot to mention don’t forget everything).
I don’t know when I saw this video, it must have been during the Covid years, it’s old, way before any of it ever happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LrMMKCSezw&ab_channel=TeamCoco The song is pure gold, when you’re somewhere you don’t want to be when you don’t know how to get out, when you’re confused and unsure – embrace it. “This is where we want to be, want to be.” And from there get back to what you need to…
It’s easy to forget why you are somewhere when you have been there for so long. What brought you to this job in the first place? Why are you working with a particular customer? What you’re going to bring to the table? What do you hope to achieve? What you want to achieve? That’s why it’s important to take that moment, not with your team, not on the phone – probably not at your desk…
Follow the Followers and you will see where they get. You will most likely miss out on where you could have gone had you taken your path. But you will have gotten somewhere, maybe where you wanted to go? That’s an unknown. But leading yourself, you’ll always be where you want to be.
No one knows what the next big thing is until it happens. You don’t know what article, podcast, code, or song is going to take off until it does. But if you don’t put it out there, you also, never will. And when it does hit, the next step is figuring out how to make it stick.