Schoo’s back. The leaves are changing colours. It’s your last 4 to get everything done you had hoped for. Go.
If you are spending the first 20 minutes of a one-hour meeting, what is the point of your meeting? You aren’t ready to have that meeting. Not probably, not maybe, not kinda sorta. You’re not ready. Figure out the point of the meeting, explain it clearly, concisely, in under 2 minutes – use the rest of the time to address the point. Not to figure out what the point is.
Your job might not fulfill you. Honest but true. You might have a job that doesn’t fulfill you. The next step is finding what fulfills you and putting time into that to counteract the work that doesn’t fulfill you. But first, you have to identify what actually fulfills you – and that’s the hard part – asking and learning what makes us feel great.
I can’t count how many times I have finished a project, only for a new version, an upgrade, a patch, an extended release, a beta, something, anything to come out that required change. I was once told that if you don’t want your software to change often, build software for hardware. (I’m not sure if this is true, but it has stuck with me). You gotta change, you gotta realize the only constant in life…
The best vacations are not the ones you go and relax at for a week or two. Sure, you have some parties and sun, but they aren’t the best ones. The stories we love to hear come from the adventures – trying something new, going somewhere, taking the road less travelled – those are the vacations we love. You still have time for and Adventurous Vacation this summer mixed in with some great stories.