This isn’t recess

You have to stop waiting to be picked. Choose yourself. You are (likely) no longer a kid at recess just trying to get into a pickup game. You don’t need to wait on the sidelines waiting for someone to look your way and choose you. That is not how this works.

Yes, there are a lot of people who rose up the ranks after being added to a list, after someone allowed them to enter. But I can assure you plenty more built their own ladders and climbed up. Build your own ladder. It is time for me to get started making my own.

This post was inspired by a podcast episode I listened from Seth Godin, titled “You’re It.”

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