Well, it’s a Monday morning and for those of you that actually get weekends off, back to the grind stone. For the rest of us, it is back to work, but in a slightly different way.
Over the weekends, although there is work to be done, I do try and shift down a gear. One big difference is that there are fewer calls to field and people don’t usually expect proposals in by Sunday close of business. I also do a lot of surfing and spend a bit more time online in general. This weekend was registering the blog in places like Google’s Blogger, setting up the YouTube account, and checking up on references in general as examples.
So Monday’s, even for me, are still down to ‘harder’ work, clients, and so on. And you can never replace hard work.
One secret to flying high is the one below.
"throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
Although a truism, it is perhaps impractical in our 4, or is it 6, dimensional universe. However, in infinite universes, anything is possible, and if you drop a rock enough times (a trillion trillion times maybe), whose to say it might not drop upwards once?
The actual secrets though, hmm, wouldn’t I like to know. It's like the saying "what's the easiest way to make a million dollars? Write a book on how to do it and sell a million copies for a dollar a piece"
Something that can never be replaced though is hard work and finding something you are or can be the best at. Doesn’t matter what it is, I have seen and envied people that have been successful doing everything from the mundane to the arcane better than anyone else. This will generally be something you enjoy doing as well.
With all that said and done, a mentor of mine still once said:
"sometimes, it's 90% luck and 10% brains, and I might have been more successful if I'd used my brains less"
However, I sleep better at night knowing, whether the actual business is doing well or not, that I put in 150% and even though I might have done something’s differently, I couldn’t have actually done more.
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