useful

Jim Collins told a great story about something his mentor, Peter Drucker, said to him when he was young and trying to make it in life.
i think it's something we all need to hear. (i only wish you could hear Collins' imitation of Drucker's German accent. uncanny.)

"You spend a lot of time worrying if you will survive.

BAH. You probably will.

You spend a lot of time worrying if you will be successful. 

BAH. You probably will be successful too.

Why don't you go out and make yourself useful."

so, maybe you didn't even need that. but i definitely needed to hear it. hit me right where i'm at.

too much worrying and not enough of us making ourselves useful.