I’ve been spending a lot of time the last little while, learning perspective in drawing. First off, it’s a crazy number of lines. I mean, there are lines everywhere and you wonder how anything you create is going to turn out. But then, once you’ve designed the grid, laid it out, put it together, and start adding your own components on top of it. Then the value of all those little lines comes together and…
My first job, I can only describe as 12 people crammed into a 2-bedroom apartment. If I moved my head to the left, I would make eye contact with a person 3 ft away, 2ft beside me was another developer and 2 ft behind me were the servers. I once backed into the server and accidentally hit the keyboard triggering a copy. My second job was in a larger building, but they never had enough…
You might feel like you’re only operating at 50% and that is probably a tough feeling – knowing you’re not operating at 100% capacity and knocking down tasks as soon as they come in. That is most likely very tough. But in the back of your mind, it’s always important to remember – that you’re 50% is someone else’s 120% and they probably wish they could have your 50% all day, every day.
If we gave up on stuff not working the first time, no one on the planet would ever be walking. At that point in time though, it wasn’t ingrained in you to give up, you simply hefted yourself back up on the couch and tried again. Forget the noise, forget what you think your failure is, forget what went wrong. Get up and take that first step again… and again… and again…
Support Systems are what keep us going. They can be a network of friends or former work colleagues that we have previously worked with. Your Support System doesn’t need to be large, in fact, it shouldn’t be, otherwise, they will never be there to support you. Keep it small, keep it tight – you only need a handful of people to remind you that you’re on the right path or be honest with you that…