Tag: work

if you don’t have it, you ain’t worth shit.  really folks –if your word is no good, then it is going to be a long road for you.  you must be true to your word.  you must follow through with what you say.  you must not break your word.  you must not scuttle your promises.  if you say it will happen at this time on this day –then, by shit, it better happen…..unless you have a death in the family.  that is the only thing that should prevent you from keeping your word.  because if you do decide to not be accountable for what you say you are going to do –then your life will end up worth no more than a pile of ….   do you get it?  be accountable or be non-committal.  and being non-committal is no way to live a life.  again –another pointless ending.  so take the easy road which is actually the harder road –be accountable.  it will be harder to be accountable, but it will make your path much easier.  comprende?

really?  well, guess what folks –your best is not good enough.  you need to go beyond doing your best and actually make it happen.  don’t tell me that you are doing your best and here is the result. don’t tell me that bullshit!  you are not doing your best because if your were –then the job would get done and you would go beyond what is expected.  that would be doing your best.  not this BS that i’m doing my best boss and that is what you can expect –doing my best.  impossible!  if this is doing your best, then you don’t know how to do your best.  you have conned yourself into believing that you are doing your best and it is ok to rest now.  that is a con job.  it is what gets you through the day and it is what gets you down the road until you drop dead –with a bullshit smile on your face because you thought you were doing your best.  but if you did do your best, then your life would have been completely different.  you wouldn’t have to adjust your goals to fit your con job.  c’mon people –don’t tell me you are doing your best when you know damn well that you are not doing your best.  and if you don’t know damn well –then you have been conned all your life and it is partly your parents fault for setting low expectations.

for 10 years –wake up, shower, quick breakfast, get in car, drive 1 hour –pay tolls and go through tunnels along the way –finally get to work.  when you arrive at work, you say hello to 10 people, go into your office, work till lunch –with a few meetings in between –saying hello again–see people face to face –work in office after lunch –more meetings, more hellos–a bit of gossip at water tank. get back in car, drive 1 hour–see family, etc.

this is what we call the “rat race” –millions live in it their entire working lives.

stop –enter internet and this process can be changed and is changing –again for millions.  now, more than ever, people are working from home.  no more driving to work, paying tolls, saying hello, seeing people face to face.  you now work on your own little work island from home.  at first you think–“fantastic”–no more BS commute, no more tolls –saving money and time.  this is all true and it is fantastic at first.  but then you fall into the isolation phase –“hey, where is everyone?” –it is just you now and you sit in your home office for 8-10 hrs a day–on your own.  you look outside your suburban window–only trees –no one is there except a few stay at home moms walking the dog.  you go for a run in the hood at lunch –no one there.  you yell out in frustration after a sales call–no one hears you.  you are alone on your work island. 

to make it on the island, you must come to a turning point in your mind –one that will allow you to say–“this is my life now –working from home –and guess what–it is not so bad–in fact, it is great –you see your family more, you save time, money”  but you do need to proactively make the transition in your mind to be successful on the island –make habits out of your new routine –make a new life on your island.