Chapter 43. Know What You Are Actually Doing
So what are you doing? Important but overlooked rule, this one. Go on, answer the question, what are you doing?
To answer this you need to have long- and short-term plans form-ulated. If you haven’t got a plan, you don’t have a map. If you don’t have a map, you’ll never find the treasure. In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, when someone questions his ability to sail his ship with only two men, Johnny Depp needs no other answer than he’s Captain Jack Sparrow. “Savvy?” If you know who you are and where you are going, you are indeed a pirate and clearly so.
So, are you laying the groundwork for a future promotion? Marking time until you decide what to do? Counting down the days ...
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