Don't settle

I think Steve Jobs said and did some of the most inspirational and visionary things I will see in my lifetime. Beyond his professional life, his personal life and how he led it with such privacy and dignity are moving. This is an excerpt from his commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. 

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

This hits home all too much, certainly with most people my age.We are the age of technology and innovation, but mixed with recession and a struggling economy. It is hard not to settle when you have to pay the bills. I have not seen in my (short) professional lifetime a hiring boom or surplus of jobs. But, as Jobs said "if you haven't found it yet, keep looking."

more Steve Jobs quotes

be a professional. a quick write/right up.

I cannot stand when 50 year old corporate types make third grade grammar mistakes. If everyone would take a minute to brush up on a few rules, they and their respective organizations would greatly benefit. Here is how I feel, if you cannot spell, speak and write correctly, why would I buy anything from you or trust anything you're saying? Correction: I stop reading after the second grammar splice.

CopyBlogger wrote this post, "Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look DUMB," and I couldn't agree more. Number one is my biggest peeve. Sheesh people, if you would take a minute to just think about the contraction it would make sense and you would never get it wrong again.

1. Your vs. You’re

This one drives me insane, and it’s become extremely common among bloggers. All it takes to avoid this error is to take a second and think about what you’re trying to say.

“Your” is a possessive pronoun, as in “your car” or “your blog.” “You’re” is a contraction for “you are,” as in “you’re screwing up your writing by using your when you really mean you are.”

Read the rest of the post for the other top five.

2. Its vs. It's

3.There vs. Their

4. Affect vs. Effect

5. The dangling participle