Did you ever have one of those days? Well this last few weeks has been like that for me. We live in such demanding times. There are very few human beings in the big business world. They are mainly drones I tell you. Programmed to live life with the perception of serving oneself, when really serving others. I have the good fortune of working with some select few minds that shine above the rest. The one common element is sense of self. Whether working on a team or alone, the sense of self helps to keep passion and pride burining strong. Thus giving you the power to overcome all obstables and hurdles, to develop solutions for every problem. There's a lot going against us, particularly in America, where our programming is deeply embedded in our minds. It trickles down from the top - the top of society, the heads of companies and the heads of families - to slowly affect everybody (shit always flows downstream). Do we do it to ourselves? Sort of. I am what we in marketing call an "early adopter", or as my friends call me, a gadget freak. However, technology is a double edged sword. We continue to develop technology to make our lives more productive and more efficient, but all we are doing is making ourselves drones to our own tools and technologies. Are we more productive and efficient? Yes. But at the sacrifice of actually living our lives for the fallacy of always evolving to live life "on the edge". One must be careful, or end up running twice as fast in the hamster wheel and getting half as far as you used to. We must all challenge ourselves to strive to be the best we can, personally and professionally... But it must be in that order.
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