Week/Rule One: If it’s broke, you better fix it.

So, yes, still on my mission for focus and fulfillment. Which means figuring out where to start. Or in my case start to clean up. We all have things that are broken. That ghetto CD player that skips, or the ceiling fan that keeps making noise, or that hole in the shirt we planned on fixing. Always planning. Never fixing. It just becomes part of the junk that clutters up our room, making it all but impossible to move around. And good intentions really don’t mean anything if those good intentions never get done. You just end up with a room full of broken things…in my case—the portfolio. The portfolio that has been worked and reworked and reworked again, but still somehow comes up, as mine was described, “looking green”. Which in designer language is not a good thing. Looking green does not equal looking like the green of a million bucks. My excuse was—what if that's the place I’m at in my career right now? Excuses don't pay. Or get you a career you love. It’s got to get fixed. Which requires lots of time and patience, two wonderful things I need much, much more of. But if that’s what I have to do, then that’s what I need to be focused on. Because if reworking and fixing and changing leads to getting to the next level, then you better believe I’m going to get there. I got four months and three weeks.