It’s The End of the Decade and You Think You Didn’t Do Enough.

A thing you have to always remember is that nothing really matters. Nobody really cares about you.

And even if they do care, it is only momentarily.

Unless you are famous, and I mean legitimately famous, famous beyond all measure, and even then it is still a fleeting thing, but unless you are famous, nobody is thinking about you. People are only thinking about themselves, or some other person, or something they need to do.

People lead busy, complicated lives, lives that are just as busy and complex as yours, if not more so. That anyone should care about you, for even a second, is a terrific victory.

You have to tell yourself this in order to get to move forward, because too often you get bogged down in what people think about you, what will happen if this happens, what will happen if that happens. But most things in life are beyond your control. They have no bearing on reality.

As far as work goes, the only thing you can control is your effort. This, this is the difference between those that do and those that do not.

The alternative is that you get stuck sitting around wondering what if and how come, questions that arise when you stop doing and start thinking. Now you’ve stopped, but the world hasn’t. It keeps right on moving, with or without you.

So you’re here now, at the end of the decade, thinking about how you spent your time, all the things you…