So you’re just starting out.

Should you:

• Specialize and make exceptions to your specialty?
• Generalize and lean towards a specialty?

The latter is tempting. We do it all!

But isn’t the former the right move?

Work backwards on your projects.

What will make this perfect? And, what will make it good enough?

Then, do the things that get you good enough (even if your project is your eulogy.)

Perfect is your enemy. Same with losing focus of your why.

Think of chores like little projects.

More exciting before. Less anticlimactic after.

You’ll probably do a better job during, too.

The email. The call. The package. The results.

It will show up eventually.

Checking for them like a crazy person isn’t helping.

You can’t fake appreciation.

But you should at least try.

How the sausage was made.

Nobody wants to know.

They think they do. You think they do.

But no!

Nobody wants to know.

Nobody.

Six magic words.

This is all off the record.

Now your words are safe. And he or she becomes an insider.

Is it possible to overuse this?

You want to pass the time, so you seek something enjoyable. Fine.

Just try to make it something useful.

Useful and enjoyable.

Because you should be working on your legacy. Don’t worry so much about anyone else’s.

They don’t exist.

They just sacrifice differently than you.

To them, you might be the super human.

You!

Be honest.

Be tough.

Be realistic.

Be it all from the outset.

Because later on, it’ll be too late for all that.