“Yappin” by Huge Mcleod

“Yappin’” by Huge Mcleod

So many times I hear people talking what should be done and not actually doing anything about it.  I’m just as guilty of just talking about it but then I try to remember this, no one wants to hear anyone complaining about a problem but everyone respects anyone who tries to do something about it.

I’m Not Getting Older! I’m Getting Poorer!

 
This is Hugh MacLeod’s Advice based his cartoon:

• I remember when me and my school friends turned THAT corner, a decade or so after graduating from college.
• When we were no longer willing to fall asleep to the noise of trendy, inner-city neighborhood gunshots.
• When we were no longer willing to have roommates.
• When we were no longer willing to live in one-room closets.
• When we started taking on things like spouses, children, car payments and mortgages.
• But all that stuff was expensive. But some of us were more used to winging it hand-to-mouth, month to month, paycheck to paycheck.
• But the worldly pressures to grow up were far greater than our ability to pay for its ever-increasing cost.
• "You don't get richer, your bills get bigger", as they say...
• Some of us figured it out. Some of us didn't. Life is unfair.

I’m one of those who ‘figured it out’ and thought I’m not independently wealthy yet, I’m so grateful of what I have.  I know many people who hasn’t.

It Was Either Love What I Do or Hate What I Do. I Chose the Former.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been receiving newsletters from a business cartoonist Hugh MacLeod who made a name for himself by cartooning based on the corporate workplace.  Each week, I get a featuring one of his cartoons and his 2 second advice based on his years of experience.  This one hit home for me as lately I haven’t been loving my day job lately and I forgot, we all have a choice.

On that note, what will you decide?

This is Hugh MacLeod’s Advice based his cartoon:

When I was younger, an older, wiser woman once told me, "90% of being Happy is just making the decision to be so."

As a big advocate of the "Love Thy Work" mentality, somewhere along the line I decided I wasn't just going to turn up and collect a paycheck, like most working stiffs I knew at the time. Somewhere, the decision was made to do it differently than them. Sure, it took me a few years for reality to catch up, but whatever, it was worth it in the end.

Decide.