When a New Year comes around we all pick up our hopes for the months ahead and lay them out on the table. They are nice, shiny hopes, all full of promise and untainted by the stain of failure. We have usually invested much time in creating and nurturing these hopes, some of us for years. Some of these hopes have been picked up and polished for so long that there is hardly any hope left on them, they’ve been worn that thin!
In the world of Software Development a lot of these hopes are of innovations and inventions that the whole world could benefit from. The most glittering of these hopes may also bring fame and fortune to their holders. I say holders because most of these hopes are clutched so tight that no amount of intervention can prise them from the grasp of their owners.
If this is even vaguely true of you then I strongly recommend that you stop talking, even to yourself, and start building a prototype. Hopes are dreams and you can’t eat dreams. Nobody can, which is why so few people will buy your dreams off you. If you have one hope for this year then let it be that you will find it in yourself to DO something. Stop worrying, don’t blame anyone, stop dithering. You are what people see, not what you say you are. So if you are to be more than you were last year then you had better start showing us soon.
Cheers!
