Writing Unit Tests? Making Lesson Plans? Making Crafts? Writing Code? Deploying Code? Making Food? Building Chairs? Designing Chairs? Then do that, do that thing that makes your heart skip a beat and gets you excited for what is to come next. Do that thing that gets you out of bed in the morning and gets you driving into the office each morning, even if the drive is an hour long. Or better yet, makes the…
The leaving of any job is the hardest part of the job. No matter how long you’ve been there, 2 days, 2 months, 2 years – it’s never easy. There is always a fear that you are abandoning or leaving those behind. You’re not, you’re moving forward, the first step is the hardest toward something new. That’s why not everyone takes it. It’s easier to stay where you are and not step forward. But the…
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…
The end is not always clear, but the beginning always is, it’s always right there in front of you. Clear as day, the beginning is always there. Start or not Start. Begin or not Begin. There is no confusion as to what happens next, it’s like Yoda says – “Do or Do Not, there is no Try”. Start or Don’t Start, there is no End. When you don’t start, you’ll never be able to see…
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…