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The only thing you should be doing

By Tac Anderson ⋅ April 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
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I originally wrote this post several months ago and it’s taken me this long to remove the excess emotion and get it to a point I thought it was ready to post. I still don’t know if it’s ready but I feel it needs to be said.

The only thing you should be doing

I don’t care if you hate your job! I don’t care if you lost your job!

I don’t care if the stock market drops to 60! (Probably should but I don’t)

I really don’t care what some reporter thinks of the market. (I quit watching the news)

I only care about what YOU & I are going to do about it! (Because let me tell you a secret, we are the only ones that can fix this mess.)

The only thing you can do is shut up and innovate. If whining about it makes you feel better then fine. Whine, but keep it to yourself and when you’re done get back to innovating.

Your new job is to innovate in *every* aspect of your life. Don’t do things better (because the things we’ve been doing don’t work anymore) do them differently.

Unemployed? Innovate in your desired field and create a company that employs others.

Still employed? Don’t put your head down and do your job better because better isn’t enough.

Don’t wait for your boss to give you permission. Innovate now!

Don’t wait for the budget (there is none). Innovation is free.

Have the next great idea but don’t have the time? Innovate around time management.

Have the next great idea but don’t have the money? Innovate how to do it with little/no money. (You don’t even have to innovate there lots of people have done it before.)

If at any point you read something in this post that made you think about how this didn’t apply to you or because you have some special circumstance, you can’t be innovative, start over from the top and read it slower this time.

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  • adam

    Luv it.

  • adam

    Luv it.

  • http://www.newcommbiz.com Tac

    Thanks Adam.

  • http://www.newcommbiz.com Tac

    Thanks Adam.

  • http://humanvoice.wordpress.com Tom O’Brien

    Tac:

    Nice work - that’s what we’re doing around here - we can’t do anything about the recession but we can do something about our business.

    TO’B

  • http://www.newcommbiz.com Tac

    Tom,
    Glad to hear it. If people spent as much time working as they spent worrying I think we’d be out of the recession by now.

  • http://www.newcommbiz.com Tac

    Tom,
    Glad to hear it. If people spent as much time working as they spent worrying I think we’d be out of the recession by now.

  • http://twitter.com/foleymo foleymo

    Wow, this is exactly what I’ve been trying to get across to the old-school newspaper journalists I debate on #journchat on Mondays. Now I have something to hurl at them when they drop their excuses on me.

  • http://twitter.com/foleymo foleymo

    Wow, this is exactly what I’ve been trying to get across to the old-school newspaper journalists I debate on #journchat on Mondays. Now I have something to hurl at them when they drop their excuses on me.

  • http://www.charlanebrady.com Charlane Brady

    Well said.

  • http://www.charlanebrady.com Charlane Brady

    Well said.

  • http://ww.researchgoddess.com Amybeth

    All we can control are our actions and our attitudes. The rest is going to happen whether we like it or not, so we might as well take responsibility for ourselves instead of waiting for someone else to do it for us, b/c it’ll never happen.

    Great advice Tac, and I sense that you really held back the emotion when you wrote this.

  • http://ww.researchgoddess.com Amybeth

    All we can control are our actions and our attitudes. The rest is going to happen whether we like it or not, so we might as well take responsibility for ourselves instead of waiting for someone else to do it for us, b/c it’ll never happen.

    Great advice Tac, and I sense that you really held back the emotion when you wrote this.

  • http://humanvoice.wordpress.com Tom O'Brien

    Tac:

    Nice work - that's what we're doing around here - we can't do anything about the recession but we can do something about our business.

    TO'B

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