I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.

Don’t just admire people who have come before, use them as an example. This is where ego plays a big roll. Having an ego and resting on past accomplishments has driven me to dark places. When I blogged for the Crawfish Boxes I often thought about this concept. As a blogger and even journalist you’d break a story or write something that got a lot of readership and then it was gone. This website for example has a similar feel to it. Most of the traffic comes from a single post I did several years ago about a phone error. I haven’t written anything that brings in nearly amount of the traffic.

One-hit wonders are like this. They do one big hit and then nothing. Where as someone like Linkin Park (or insert favorite band) has hit after hit. Even when the band falls apart Mike Shinoda is still producing content that’s inspiring people. We should rest on our laurels. We should use them as jumping off points to the next thing. We should look to people that inspire us and use them as examples for doing great things. We should also recognize that accomplishments are fleeting things. I’ve accomplished many things in my career. My greatest is starting up a local user group that has grown and succeed. That was over a half decade ago. What have I done lately that really inspires people.