Two blogs posts I’ve read recently have really cheered me up. You may have read them:
“You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in Davos, Mexico, Monaco or wherever. You might be psyched out into thinking you’re doing something wrong for being in your shitty little windowless office. Clicking on their glam party pictures. You’re not. You’re where you should be.”
This post really hits the spot on how success is a process and it’s not always going to be glamorous. Sure, I’d love to travel the world but I want to start a company because I believe in an idea, not because I expect to be rich.
“If the old adage is true that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then the corporate corollary is “do the same thing over and over again, irrespective of results, because that is the way it has always been done and if you’d like to action a change going forward then that is really something we should definitely bring up at the next meeting.”
I just read this yesterday and had a good laugh out loud moment. This was just the uplifting moment I needed to remind myself to let go of the frustrations of work. There are so many good quotes in this post that are funny because you know it’s true. Some people have told me that I’m “too enthusiatic” and concerned with doing a good job. So what that has taught me is that at these jobs no one else cares if I am “kicking back in my cubicle checking Facebook, maybe watching a cat video, knowing that whether I kick ass today or totally shit the bed, my day at the office will have no discernible impact on the well-being of my coworkers, my company, or the world.” Danny Boice describes it best with that. I now can confidently say that’s fine for some people but it’s not for me. I’m passionate and I’m not apologizing for that.