I’m full of excuses. If there were an award for creating excuses I’m fairly certain I would win both the Olympic Gold Medal for my abilities, AND the Nobel Peace Prize for the advancement of the field all in the same year. Some days are better than others, but being like the stock market and flip flopping between charging bull and hibernating bear is exhausting. The excitement of excelling, pushing myself, and doing what I want can turns to disappointment on the days I realize that I’m one day closer to my death and just wasted the day not truly doing what I want. Like I’ve said before, I’m not advocating becoming a workaholic for “the man”; I’m advocating getting
Declare Your Independence
Happy Birthday America! Today we celebrate the birth of America by having copious amounts of Bar-B-Q and drinks while gorging on food as though we are about to go into battle. We’ll try to keep cool by floating in the closest pool while counting down the minutes until we see the biggest fireworks our cash strapped cities can muster together because we all love to celebrate the birth of our country by seeing a small part of it blown up in fashion. While sorting through my carefully selected fireworks I realized that America celebrates its declaration of independence and NOT the last battle that ended the war. We don’t celebrate the war victory; we celebrate the DECLARATION of our rights
Everything You Can Do, You Can Do Better
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle Since you’re reading this post, I’m going to go on a limb and say that you’re on a perpetual path to perfection. You probably also realize perfection is impossible to achieve without the proverbial cocktail of blood, sweat, and tears. Kudos! You are admirable not because you were born “special” (no matter what your mom has to say about that), but because you run, walk, and crawl toward excellence day after day. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford Don’t take on grandiose projects just to crumble at their weight. Limit the responsibility you take
A Case For Imperfection
When you’re working on a project, there’s no sweeter word than “DONE.” I’ll admit to some high fives, a few loud “HELL YAYS!” or even an occasional dance (after making sure there are no recording devices present) in celebration. Finally realizing the fruits of your hard work is quite addictive indeed: conceive an idea-birth a project-slave away-reap rewards-rinse-repeat. Yet you are smart enough to know that this process is not always quite linear (otherwise, I wouldn’t be wasting your time with this article), and there’s a subtle nuance of knowing when to bust out in that crazy booty dance and when to keep laboring away. Does it take a perfect product to have a perfect product launch? Does your product
