Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Have you taken a look at your fannishness lately and seen what you can mine for your career?
Every now and then, when I'm evaluating the next steps in my career, updating my LinkedIn.com profile, and similar activities, I like to review what I do as the total geek that I am. I review it because there's often a lot of useful things you can use in your career that you miss.
Self-Improvement is the cornerstone of a happy and productive career. You want to grow, you want to expand, you want to learn. Each lesson, each new technique, each new degree is a thrill as you grow and expand.
There are many barriers to self-Improvement. But one of the most insidious ones is a lack of self-trust.
In the Great Recession there are always tales of people's grandparents or parents or relatives in the Great Depression. There's always someone discussing what influence those tough times had on their family.
There's also historians discussing issues even further back. They discuss earlier recessions and earlier social changes and what people learned.
it appears one of the booming business in the Great Recession is talking about what people in past times of economic crisis learned and did. So here's a lesson to take away from that.
You're going to be shaped in adversity, so choose how you're going to be shaped. You're gonna get the adversity anyway.