I’m fairly proud of this weekend mostly because I got a lot of things done. It really goes back to Friday when I didn’t take my usual DFWVF and instead worked with one of the new guys on some new exciting things we’re trying to do to make us suck less as a company. Even though it’s 1 AM after Fathers Day most of which I spent with the laptop on my legs and a little monkey on my shoulder, I feel very fulfilled in how it went and not stressed out at all.

Which brings me to a point - your job (business / company / vocation) should be fulfilling and motivating to the point that you love going to it and enjoy working in it. You shouldn’t be stressed out of your mind, working half to death just to drag your beaten carcass back home where you can have quick access to a firearm. You need to work on finding ways not to be stressed out at work.

The best way to do so is great planning. If you can pull that off my hat is off to you, you’re a better man than I am.

For me it’s all about stacking the deck of disappointment so high that it doesn’t matter on which miserable task I work on, it’s really not going to get any worse with time because as the pile of shit grows it solidifies the building of shame I have in our shortcomings so that I can really get in the gear to fix them and not run around like a chicken without a head trying to plug holes on the floor of a sinking ship. So I take them one by one in nearly random order and get them done and I find that way things get done much faster.

Now that’s perhaps a little dark to the casual observer but really, who motivates me? Money? Nope. Boss? Don’t have one. Partners? Sometimes. My only driving force is to keep on improving the business by being a part of it and constantly moving it forward and fixing what appears to be broken.

I’ve been at this for a long time and I love it more now than I ever have before. Most people in my role or at my skill set are giving up on what they do, they look for distractions or other projects they would rather be on. They want something new, something fresh, a challenge! (Note to self: offer a gig the next time, if they have figured it all out maybe we can use them); I just can’t understand at all why anyone would try to work so hard for something just to be able to go and work on something else outside of the company..

I for one am going nowhere. I love what I do, I love what we do, and I love being a part of evolving what this company can do as its resource scope grows. That to me is exciting, motivating and more than enough to let me look around the pile of things that I don’t like about what we do. But you know what, I am still in it and I am still competing and don’t think I could just quit on that and move to something else……

Unless someone came by with a large, large, large, large, large sum of money of course Then it’s whoring all the way in as shameless of a way as possibly imaginable!

Hope you enjoyed this exhausted mental thought-stream. This is why I usually write an outline of what I’m going to say before I do

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