If you want to be good at something, don’t act surprised when you do that one specific thing.
If you want to be arrogant, I’m not your mom, be arrogant. As long as you can back it up when it matters, that’s between you, your team, and whoever writes your checks.It drives me absolutely crazy to watch people celebrating a thing. Not because you shouldn’t celebrate moments, but because they’re showboating…and usually still losing at the same time.
Put the nail in the coffin. Drive it home. Then, it’s up to you.
But honestly, if you aren’t enough without winning, the celebration won’t make it any different. Get back to work.
We live in a time of chaos. If all you have to offer the creative market is more hot garbage, maybe rethink your offerings.
There are work ponies and show ponies. Yes. The show ponies get all the flowers hung around their necks and kisses blown into their faces by people tugging on their braided hair, but the work ponies make it all possible. All of it.
These days, people are famous because they are….famous; and it makes about as much inventing a bread slicer before you know what bread is.
Let the dead burry their own dead.
Put your blinders on. Put your head down.And do your work. You can’t worry about what everyone else is doing. You can’t let yourself be distracted. You can’t let yourself loose your head in the moment. If you want people to think you can handle big moments, start acting like you’re ready to be there.
Don’t spend time rehearsing your endzone dance instead of planning how to win the game.
If you want to dance, go dance. If that’s your creative outlet, that’s fine. But when was the last time you saw a writer celebrate a finished work by lighting it on fire and dancing around it? Better yet, when was the last time you saw your grocery bagger celebrate doing their job by throwing up the D Generation X sign? If you do your job well, no matter what it is, it can be art. Anything done well is hard to come by.
Life is going to be full of failures and a lot of small victories.
If you can’t handle them, then why do you think you deserve any of the big ones?