It's been more than a year since I started this blog and just under a year since I finished as a partner at my old firm. So, how has my new venture gone?
It's still evolving: it's too easy to get distracted by work and not spend enough time on thinking about the future.
I am enjoying the journey and the time I have with my wife and family.
And I am reading the experiences of a lot of other people who are on their own journey.
In You've got to find what you love, Steve Jobs' Commencement graduation address to Stanford University, Jobs observes:
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
UPDATE : Here's the speech on video
More reading
How do you define success? (Curt Rosengren)
It Ain't Hard (Evelyn Rodriguez)
Are you busy? (John Clark)
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