Just Dysfunctional

Seth Godin has been writing some phenomenal posts lately. The latest hit especially close, mostly because I have been worrying about disappointing myself (mostly) and others (to an extent). So when the title "meandering toward nowhere special" - (which is what it seems like I'm doing with this after-graduation job/general life-purpose search) popped up in my email, my clicker was on the permalink like white on rice.

He names five behaviors which, when gathered together, lead to disappointment. The five behaviors being, drumroll please, big dreams (check), poor work habits (ish), shortcut seeking (definitely), lottery thinking (define that? oh. yeah.), and lack of self-awareness (oops).

Wow, so I'm five for five on the dysfunctional list. So, then, what can I do about it?

Then how can I switch these habits to instead focus on the meaningful and impactful. Focus on the difference I make for one instead of one hundred?

How will I pursue inspiration and how can I change the daily processes to expose something new, where do I need lessons to better myself and my skills?

Where is the long route? Let's find it, let's journey on it, and let's learn a thing or two while we're fumbling and grumbling with that map.

Let's bring it back to reality: it can always be better. Negative reviews? The critics are sometimes, if not more times, right than you are brilliant. Listen and get back to work.

So that's my thought of the day.

(To round it out, I thought one more set of () and a nature pic would be good.)