Will Carroll is exactly right. I now will go drink myself into a stupor.

"The solution? I believe there must always be a goal in front of you. Something you are moving towards. Make it a big goal. Make sure it involves skills you don’t have so you’ll be required to learn and practice new things. Make sure it requires you to have an open mind and stimulates your curiosity. At the same time, make sure it’s something that requires you to have the same focus and discipline that got you to where you are today.

It’s great that you have been a champion. That you were a success at something previously. That you were at the top of your class, made lots of money or led a big department at Procter & Gamble. But if that’s how you see yourself, you’re looking in the rearview mirror and worse, you’re not propelling yourself forward, you’re coasting."

My co-worker's folks saw this the other night, so I might as well grab it for 'em.

YAAAAAY!

Tempting, for both work and the laptops.

"The curse of any effective task management system is that you get really good at capturing, prioritizing, and executing tasks. To the point that you start to believe that merely completing a task is helping your career. After a solid decade of rampant task management, I realized I needed to augment tasks with a system that would strategically guide and remind me that my job was not to do things, but to remember the interesting words in my title: manager, engineering, and products. That’s what I do." Yeah. I am overwhelmed to the point of tacticality these days, which is a BAD, BAD THING.