Sunday thoughts: your career is like this dry lawn.
I spent weeks watering it, almost daily.
Then I left for one weekend.
Two days of exceptional heat,
and this is what I came back to.
All burnt and dry.
All the work from the previous weeks and months, erased.
Just like that, in two days.
Sometimes, you work hard, you stay consistent, for months, years, decades.
And then a single distraction ruins everything.
Sometimes it’s not even your fault. Like this heatwave.
Third year in a row it happens.
(Climate change 😢)
But every year I fix it. And guess what?
The lawn always comes back greener and better.
Every spring,
I upgrade my tools.
I learn new techniques.
I remove dead grass and use stronger seeding.
Every spring I start over, but never from zero.
Until two exceptionally hot days strike again.
And I restart, over and over again.
Who else feels the same about their careers?
