“Our mantra: brutal prioritization, maniacal focus.” - Jeffrey Kalmikoff
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Protect the Idea
“Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it. That’s easy. The hard thing to do is protect it, think about it, let it marinate, explore it, riff on it, and try it. The right idea could start out life as the wrong idea.” – Jason Fried | Give It Five Minutes
Again, I work with an amazing team.
Freedom in Limits
“Sometimes, our options are constrained because of circumstances we have no control over. Obviously, very few of us have unlimited funds or time, and we have to work within those constraints. But whether we choose the constraints or are chosen by them, we can decide to embrace them and find the power there. By embracing them, we grow.” – Jamis on SVN
I work with some smart people.
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.” – Pierre de Chardin
“You have a talent that none of the rest of us have. Just find out what it is and use it. It’s doing nothing that’s the enemy.”
- Lady Sybil in
Success Is Work
One thing for sure is the fact that everyone that I’ve interfaced with works extremely hard. Sure, they work “smarter” but they still work hard at it, refining their techniques, honing their craft, and pushing through the daily spells of being tired and opting to “jump back in” when they really don’t feel like it.
Those that truly further and advance their careers take one less “smoke break,” watch one less Youtube video, turn off the sitcoms and video games, read one less RSS feed, and instead pour that energy back into their labor. They do not work in vain – they see the fruit and they know it’s coming, just not right now. – John the Tentblogger
Totally true. Every minute you waste on something else is one more minute taken away from your success. Success happens when you do the hard work each day no matter what.
More and Less
“We have more and more ways to communicate and less and less to say” – Henry David Thoreau
That’s from his experience in the early 1800s. Imagine what he would think about today with our constant firehouse of information via the Internet.
Read this -> The Joy of Quiet via The New York Times
