Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Hugh MacLeod:

We've all been there.  You know you're capable of doing great things, being in "The Zone," but every external marker out there indicates otherwise -- that you'll never get to do the "life's best work" that you're capable of.  That your career will be nothing but drudgery and abuse in exchange for what seems an increasingly meager paycheck.

Yeah, it's a painful place to be.  But it doesn't last forever, not if you don't give up.  Not if you don't succumb to all the overpriced, treadmill-type external markers of success -- fancy houses, cars, schools, vacations, and "stuff" that you can't really afford, that you don't really need nearly as much as the guy in the next cubicle says that you do.

This is it.

Fight like hell.

Evil Plans, p. 141

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