log entries of timotheus

I found a great motivational post in my RSS feeds today. It’s from Kellbot, a fairly random blog I read. She popped up on my radar because she was mentioned on BoingBoing once about making a trackball input device for a PS2, and that’s cool.

Anyway the post is about being Self-Employed or Unemployed, and how to make it.
http://www.kellbot.com/2010/03/staying-awesome-while-youre-unemployed/

You should read it yourself, but one point that really hit me like a meaty punch in the gut was this:

“Either way, you should have something to show for the time you haven’t been rotting away in a cubicle. Make other people jealous of you rather than pity you.”

Holy wow. I always feel like I can be doing more, and some of my projects are taking much longer than I planned. And a lot of that has to do with me, and letting other things get in the way of my goals.

I should get “Make other people jealous of you rather than pity you” on a banner for my office/workspace.