:: Captain's Personal Blog ::

Stardate: Monday, February 04, 2002

What a day. Worked on a special project today. That was on top of the normal stuff I had to do today. Doesn't sound like much. Actually, it's quite a bit, for a Monday. And I feel fulfilled. I made a conscious decision today not to let laziness get me down and to be the kind of person I was when I first started working here. To wit:

After spending hours on my special project, I was asked by a co-worker if i wanted her to take over for me on the rest of my stuff for the day, in case I felt a little overwhelmed. I actually considered it for a while. Half an hour (easy to do, when the offer is made over a text-page.) After thinking about it, I realized that I wanted to keep working. There was really no reason for me not to. I mean, so what? Just because it was early in the week doesn't mean that I don't have to work as hard as I do later in the week. Lately I've been wondering if I've been slowing down and maybe not caring as much about my work.

I mean, I know I enjoy my work, but that doesn't mean that I may not be taking a more lax position towards it. Maybe I have become a little too comfortable in my position. But I think that should change. I should take a more gung-ho approach to my work. The kind I used to have when I started. Eager to please, and eager to do the work. Lord knows I am not doing what I truly want to be doing, but that doesn't make what I do any less important and that doesn't make where I am any less special. It's a tough world out there, especially now. It's high time I treated things as though I was as thankful as I know I should be.

It's easy to make this kind of resolution now, keeping it may be difficult, but damn it I am going to try. Complacency has made me weak and lazy. It's time for me to put an end to that and start really WORKING again. Onwards and upwards from now on. EXCELSIOR!
:: J 5:41 PM [+] ::
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