“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die” Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
If you find that this sentiment applies to your life, then you will appreciate Ryan Norbauer’s discussion “Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work”
He starts eloquently with:
The trite wisdom of contemporary folklore instructs us that the arrival of the New Year is a time to reflect on the achievements of the preceding 365 days and to bear down and “resolve” to achieve more in those to come. Over time, we learn what a hydra-headed beast this is: no matter how many projects or actions we may whack off our ineluctable lists, it seems that yet more (often increasingly ambitious) commitments spring up in their place. With each new year come self-recriminations for our failure to meet the unlikely goals we’ve set for ourselves—lose weight, read through those piles of books and RSS feeds, start picking up our socks—and a stultifying brainstorm of new projects we’d like to take on.
Tags: business culture, urgency
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