Reminders for Life

Whoops, a whole week without posting. It's been an interesting week, to say the least: psychic vampires and stupid drama, work woes and craziness. But I'm still alive! Huzzah! Partially prompted from stress about my job (social media coordinator for my father's company) and partially from The Pantheon's urgings, I have a created a list of simple reminders to myself. Some of them are work-specific, most of them are applicable to all of life; some of them only make sense to my brain or those who know the reference, but most of them should be useful for everyone. Feel free to use or ignore as you see fit. I just thought it might be nice to share my insights of the day.

Do

• Believe in yourself
• Make strange connections
• Go beyond the obvious
• Be yourself
• Be funny, if you can
• Find the interesting angle
• Be prepared
• Be humble, but confident
• Explore all aspects of a situation
• Be creative
• Break things into bite-sized pieces
• Make things personable and interesting
• Focus on one thing at a time
• Remember you can do this; you can do anything
• Think outside the box
• Ask weird questions
• Recapture your inner child
• Take things one step at a time
• Take a break if you need it
• Be okay with not knowing where something’s going
• Borrow techniques from others, where appropriate
• Remember that no one’s done this before; you’re a trail blazer
• Brainstorm before acting
• Follow your intuition when you’re feeling lost; it will not lead you astray
• Set smaller goals
• Treat your contacts like royalty; they are your livelihood
• Keep a positive outlook and remember the law of returns
• Integrate your life, especially bringing spirit into your work and not vice versa
• Make to-do lists
• Be a Kaoru, not a Kyouya
• Love yourself and love your work
• Remember that your attitude affects your work
• Be passionate and energetic

Don’t

• Be afraid to make mistakes
• Sit on your butt doing nothing
• Stick with something that doesn’t work
• Be shy
• Be afraid to ASK FOR HELP when needed
• Let yourself get overwhelmed
• Multi-task (too much)
• Lose the fun in the job
• Lose sight of the goal
• Forget that you signed up for this
• Let little things get in the way
• Get distracted too often
• Take things too seriously
• Be afraid to talk to people
• Be afraid to suggest ideas, even if you think they’re silly
• Tear yourself down; you’re a goddess/god
• Forget to stretch now and then
• Think of yourself as an expert
• Compare yourself to others in the same field
• Be afraid to pretend or role play for confidence
• Spread yourself too thin
• Ignore your gut
• Try to take on the entire project at one time
• Think it’s all about the money
• Get hung up on nitpicky details until the overall is in decent shape
• Be impatient; but don’t be too patient, either
• Be too spontaneous/disorganized
• Forget that everyone is human
• Be only work, or a workaholic
• Set your standards/goals too an unobtainable high (or too low)
• Let a bad mood hold you back
• Be afraid to go with the flow
• Be afraid of change