The Great Reboot

the great reboot how infosec professionals can come out of this mess better than before on march 13th my life changed i was at the red sea i was having a great time i was working i was teaching a class but it was beautiful the weather was gorgeous i was waking up early and running by the palm trees in the ocean there were great restaurants and amazing seafood and every night i was going out with a friend and having a great meal i was taking vacation or holiday next in jordan i was gonna fly to oman i was gonna see petra the scenes from raiders of the lost ark i was gonna go swim in the dead sea i

was really looking forward to this instead there was an announcement that we might be closing the borders in the united states i woke up at three in the morning i didn't sleep very well i had a flight at 5 30. i didn't want to miss it the airport was closing i got to the airport i don't want to exaggerate and say it was a full refugee situation but there was luggage abandoned in the street there were people sitting on the floor that looked like they'd been there two or three days in the airport and i know a lot of flights had been canceled once i got through customs immigration timing ticketing all that stuff it was a little

calmer on the other side but not exactly relaxed by any means once i got on the plane and the wheels took off i breathed a sigh of relief sort of two people in looked like full out hazmat suits there were nurses a male and a female as as the middle east came down taking everyone's temperature and i was like what if somebody has a high temperature we're like already in the air i flew through istanbul great airport very modern very nice but it wasn't quite relaxed it was sort of very chill if nobody wanted to be there i want to get through there and i was thinking what if my flight gets canceled they do

get cancelled the istanbul airport is in europe and supposedly we're closing the borders well i got on the plane i did make it home won't even mention what happened when i landed in boston but ninety percent of my work no longer existed it had been postponed cancelled or whatever on the flight home i'm a consultant and just things stopped and i love to travel it's a love of my life it totally changed and my life and the world became a very different place with lots of uncertainty going forwards now who am i to talk about this well i finished grad school in 86 got a job working in technology 1990 i started working for myself

working in infosec i was doing kerberos way back then a lot of different clients ranging from a lot of startups the fortune 500 to government entities which gets me all over the place and i love to travel i've got three books i've written more is coming up and i've been through some tough times before the dot-com bubble bursting certainly 9 11 when also flights stopped like they pretty much did now 2008 recession i even started my consulting business during a recession well today is very different than any other times like there's serious problems going on right now and whether we survive or do well and so forth is a little iffy luck does play a role i think

to a large extent we make our luck no not entirely but we can do things to maximize the probability of coming out of this hopefully better than before now this is absolutely not a feel-good talk we're going to talk about concrete things you can do to weather the pandemic and other difficulties we have and hopefully thrive both during and afterwards so what can you do to maximize the probability well preparation is obviously helpful my biggest client they're doing all right now they're not doing as well as before but they had actually planned quite literally for a pandemic they had thought what if suddenly we can't travel anymore what if people aren't moving around what if they're not getting on planes

but we can't plan retroactively right so we're going to be looking primarily going forwards now in some ways for some of us this might be a chance for a fresh start i'm looking at basically repositioning redoing my business changing some things as well as in my life and even people in companies in some really hearted areas and industries are doing well not all my gym i loved my gym small local friendly gym i got back may 14th because flight was i don't know 30 hours with stopovers and they sent an email fairly quickly saying hey we're still open you know we're pretty empty we're following the hygiene rules and the cdc everything come on in

and i was like no way am i going there well apparently everyone felt that way in a little while longer there was an email saying our equipment's for sale don't worry we won't charge you for this month we're closed captioning not available uh maybe i'm exaggerating maybe i'm understating it but a lot of money it doesn't take a lot of business class tickets to the other side of the planet to add up quickly i've given them zero dollars since march in fact last quarter their revenue was down 90 percent but still alaskan airlines added new routes now they must have been planning this ahead of time right but they didn't cancel it they move forwards they must

be doing at least okay in furniture right buying furniture that's furniture is not an essential service or buying furniture you can sleep on that old bed or use that old couch there's a chain in new england if you're in new england you probably know them jordan's furniture because they're very colorful advertisements they opened a store right outside of portland maine the biggest furniture store in maine they actually opened it i think it was august 3rd or 4th now obviously they must have been planning that ahead of time but they they carried on so they must be doing okay now i'd rather be an infosec professional in the airline business or the furniture business or a gym owner

or certainly like the hospitality business restaurants or hotels or bars some people say hey you know we're uniquely poised as infosec professionals yeah i don't think so i think we're somewhere between okay to great right we're better than most still some of us are unemployed just today i tweeted out three or four different sets of job openings because i know there's some of us are unemployed we've been laid off or furloughed or whatever i already mentioned 90 of my work disappeared overnight yesterday i was talking to two friends my friend chris his uncle passed away it was definitely covered another friend of mine his best friend died now he was in his 80s but that

doesn't mean his life was worth any less people are definitely dying who can't downplay the seriousness it may be much worse than we think maybe it's not as bad but just from very recently right talk to anthony fauci when you experience an outbreak don't ever ever underestimate the potential of the pandemic now people like to say we're all in the same boat yeah i don't believe that my boat's okay my neighbor my direct neighbor similar feel to us his boat's not as good a little bit older he has pre-existing conditions he's not in as good a boat it might be the same storm but he has a better chance of something bad happening to him

than i do and a lot of you are probably in better shape than me i'm in my 50s i wish i was in my 30s i'd be less at risk still whether we have something bad going on or not really have two choices two different mindsets i can and i can't and we could just sit around and say this is bad i'm going to weather the storm i want to do nothing if you have a positive outlook saying you know a good chance we could come out of this better than before positive thinking itself doesn't do anything you have to do some good things this requires planning and focused effort emphasis on focus knowing that some things aren't

going to go well even in the best of times we're going to have failures hopefully partial failures along the way now people many of my friends many of my colleagues say well it's impossible to come out of this better than before i can't do anything significant now first of all you've probably done some things that you considered to be impossible at some point and now you just do them all the time it's not a big deal very concrete example it used to be thought that for a human to run a mile in less than four minutes was physically impossible athletes thought it coaches thought it medical doctors thought it and so forth then this guy named roger roger

bannister did it supposedly impossible guess what lots of people did it after him as soon as one as soon as we knew it wasn't impossible others did his record didn't last that long about a month and a half now it's been done by way over a thousand people maybe up to 1500 now including high school athletes that aren't remotely near the peak of their performance right it always seems impossible until it's done and i love that quote from ford it says whether you think you can or you think you can't you're right so let's talk about what doesn't work okay just dreaming okay vague plans with no action now there's a reason i have a picture of a piano there

i own a piano i inherited it now nobody died just people were downsizing in the family i theoretically know how to play the piano i can read music i took lessons when i was a kid i came back i'm like i'm not traveling for a few weeks okay it's turned into a few months but i was like i'll just sit at the piano every day i'll play for five or ten minutes what would i walk by i'll sit maybe when i have my coffee in the morning or a drink at night a vague plan right no actual plan just kind of vague and i haven't sat once at the piano it's about like the piano stool i just looked

today it's still covered in can i say junk crap i can't even sit at the piano with all the paperwork and stuff there uh i know other friends said well i'm gonna get in shape i'm not commuting to work good friend of mine used to drive 45 minutes each way saving an hour and a half he's like i'll just go for a walk every morning yeah he hasn't done anything right just vague plans just dreaming doesn't do anything complaining some of us have legitimate things to complain about i was sick this summer thought i had covet turns out it was negative i just had something else i could have complained right of course everyone's saying take care of yourself

get plenty of sleep stay hydrated it's like yeah of course you should but that's that's you know that's not going to do anything in some ways i hate positive thinking because many people think that's all that you need and positive thinking alone doesn't do anything you're going to do some actual good things to come out of this better you could take a class i have taken i think five classes so far since that march flight home i took two technical security classes one was on risk management one was chris crowley's security operations center class i took a class on professional bartending with my son i took a class on video production for consultants and entrepreneurs i've taken

a bunch of classes some commercial offerings now this doesn't have to cost money some of the conferences have relatively cheap training i love coursera coursera has free training from hundreds if not thousands of universities worldwide i took a great crypto class from stanford i took another class from princeton all in the last few years mit open course where all of the classes from the massachusetts institute of technology are free all of them you to me i've taken some great stuff from you to me including some rock stars like uh guy kawasaki and seth godin and they've got cheap classes and everything from wire shark to applying makeup i could write a new class i teach a lot

you could write a class on something you could learn a foreign language i'm up to 183 days solid i think on duolingo studying spanish i was going to go in april with chris crowley to oaxaca mexico on a mezcal tour that obviously didn't happen you'd learn to cook right study mixology i'm no joking i'm in a serious study of tiki drinks these days while i'm home you'd learn to play the piano you'd write a book or read a book it's lots of possible good things you can do there's only one problem you can't do everything you just can't you can't spread yourself too thin that just doesn't work it's not like a buffet where you want to eat a

little this and a little of that and you'll end up having eaten too much well in this case you'll end up doing a little of everything and really not accomplishing much since you can't do everything i strongly suggest you have a not to-do list here's my list updated today now i did write a new class but on my list is not to write another new class i really want to write a class on cryptography i'd love to run a five or six day write a five or six day class i've got the background i've got advanced degrees in mathematics but i'm not going to do it why because it would take so much time and

can't do everything i've decided not to learn to play that piano right now uh later this fall maybe winter when i'm inside or i may do it then but it's on my not to-do list getting in better shape i'm not doing that now i have lost about two and a half stones over the last two years and that's like an obscure imperial measurement that amuses me that's about 30 35 pounds i have lost 35 pounds i was pretty big i'm still big but i'm trying to maintain my this uh now i gave this talk once before a month ago and people really wanted me to run something based on this on this talk some sort of

a challenge or a short class like make people people people pay seven dollars or 97 or 17 just so they're vested and have people actually come up with a plan and just go through it as a group i love that idea still a serious thought but i'm not doing it right now because you can't do everything now i would suggest you come up with a not to do list these are things you want to do that would be really cool if you did but you're not doing them at least not now because you can't do everything now don't put things on this list that you're not that tempted to do so not on my not to do list is to take a

class in ballet i don't have a big desire in taking a ballet class it would be pretty cool i'm a big clumsy guy i'd probably end up being less clumsy and it'd be a really good thing but there's no big temptation so i'm not going to litter up my not to-do list with that i suggest you take no more than five minutes just jot some things down right do it two minutes it doesn't have to be perfect now let's talk about what worked earlier in this pandemic still does to some extent a sprint a focused effort over a short term so i'm in this high-end business group it's got a bunch of consultants like me

and other entrepreneurs and they had these 17-day sprints now why they came up with 17 days i don't know there's probably some back story and we'd all pick something we're gonna work on intensively for 17 days that would be something seriously good to get done so i did a very significant update to my successful infosec consulting class i worked on it every every day for 17 days i think it was 15 days when i was done a couple days of proofreading i love to read i don't read that much and i like to read physical books when i was home in the beginning i was reading a minimum of two books a week i got a stack of books to go through it

i like physical books friend of mine lives about 30 minutes away he enhanced his home lab and he played in it every single night for two weeks he still does just not every single night he actually took the free webinar it's uh it's online now for black hills information security on building a home lab and he enhances now sprint's work right there's some current ones going on friends from my firm former gym when it shut down this august they started to get fit in august challenge you had to commit to showing up at least two days a week they're doing it five days a week outdoors very socially distanced worked so well they're doing it again in

september i didn't join because i was busy doing other stuff i'm a big james altucher fan he's kind of a crazy man uh google his podcast two recent fridays he's had a 30 day write a book challenge and turn it you can't write a book in 30 days well he convinced me you can you can actually get a published book in 30 days a guy named russell brunson he's a marketing guy you probably don't know him he's got a 30-day funnel hacking challenge right so you can do some things in short periods of time but we're not in a sprint anymore when i came back march 13th i didn't still expect things bad things to be going on in

september right a marathon requires a lot more planning whether it's an actual literal running marathon or more of a you know more of a metaphoric marathon now i ran an actual marathon once a little over a year ago it required planning right i trained for months and months and during the marathon there was a lot of planning going on as well where i was going to stop for water where i was going to run faster slower and i actually able to finish this thing but you can certainly get more significant new things accomplished in a longer time frame than just a few weeks and if you're trying to work at sprint pace for months you're going to burn yourself

out now just some working definition short term maybe now to maybe a few months out long term six months maybe decades for me i define long term is 18 plus months whatever definition works for you now i love these quotes from winston churchill right plans are worthless planning is priceless it is the planning process that's important the plan is not going to work the way you do it there's various sayings it but no plan survives contact with the enemy or no plan survives contact with reality you got to be flexible i've come up with an actual plan and i'm going to talk about creating an actual plan to come out better than before i think you should create an actual plan

as well now planning's not hard i've always been a horrible planner i just haven't planned i've just kind of go with the flow and it's worked well for me uh it's interesting because i've done lots of planning for others professionally for a long time i do a lot of strategic security planning for my clients so i am a good planner i just never did it my personal life well as soon as i had kids i had to do more planning and my ex-wife requires planning as well right just make to make everything work and i've always didn't want to plan in my personal life because i'm like yeah it's just going to like remove freedom

it's i just like to have flexibility i've decided planning actually creates freedom it gives us some structure within that structure you have a lot of freedom and you can change that structure right because because you're in charge because things will change and evolve and i honestly believe planning helps you to see possibilities you might not have otherwise now when we're talking about planning we're talking about the future right we need to know where we are now or reasonable assessment the past matters to some extent how you got to where you are and you know companies will have a so-called vision a big picture call for a company sometimes their vision is we might describe it as what they want

to be when they grow up whether you use the term vision or long-term goal or big picture goal i think we should as well just like companies do now realize you may have a vision and the further out that vision is that thing you want to do or accomplish or move towards the further out it is the fuzzier things can become right the less sure we are about the future the further out it is and so i'd like to say there isn't really one future there's all these possible futures and you might say this is what i want to do something else may happen there may be some alternate future that happens it might even be better

might just be different right there's uncertainty when we go out now the one thing people don't talk about is the past is fuzzy too at the past matters further back you go the less certain the past is i know what i had for lunch yesterday three weeks ago i'm not so sure we're pretty sure george washington had wooden teeth right pretty sure but did genghis khan have teeth i don't know all right the further back you go the fuzzier things are so here's what we're going to look at first of all the past not that far back assessing where we were pre-covered assessing as well as we can because there's a lot of uncertainty where we are now

a very small number a big picture or longer term goals or vision if you like that word some people like that term some don't now this isn't the bucket list this isn't i want to go on a safari in south africa and i want to go bungee jumping and i want no no no just a few things not like a bucket list and some smaller supporting goals now the smaller supporting goals doesn't matter if they succeed or not they're only there to support our big picture or longer term goals and the temptation even if you restrict yourself to a small number of big picture goals and put all these smaller supporting goals in all these possible things remember the

concept of the not to do list as well as your actual not to do you can't do everything and some planning tips for success or for let's say avoiding failure if we don't want to planning for success is positive avoiding failure i think that's also positive it doesn't sound it so i can't tell you about you but i can tell you about me okay march 12th that's when i changed my flight to fly back the next day right before the world suddenly changed i had a really good and stable income i wasn't making a million dollars a year i was doing fine i love what i do and i work hard and we get paid pretty well in this field

i had a great lifestyle that i really enjoyed i love teaching i love consulting i was doing a lot of this my favorite places in the world probably at least right now amsterdam they know me in more bars in amsterdam than anywhere else by name brussels i love brussels and i'm a greek origin went to greece twice last year fallen in love with greece i'd be going back this fall if things were different and i was spending weeks in these three places and generally working there too and getting paid and taking time off i was seeing my family a lot families important to me more would have been better uh more is difficult sometimes especially with teenagers

i had lots of flexibility and freedom so where am i now well there's lots of uncertainty my income's recovered i don't have work lined up nine months out uh i have guaranteed paid work into well into next month that's it i have plans in september excuse me december and january they're not concrete i have a very different lifestyle right uh almost all work is remote i had one in person meeting that was not too far away um spending time two different places new hampshire and maine two i'm kind of multi-home you can drive between the two places a lot less flexibility and freedom i had a long weekend off with a friend we're like what are we gonna do

i was gonna go somewhere with my girlfriends like what are we gonna do i want to go to quebec city guess what the border is closed there's not that much flexibility i both more time because i'm not traveling also less time i got three teenagers at home or let's say two and a half teenagers at home so how would you summarize your life and work pre-covert and your life and work today now don't spend a lot of time on this i would suggest two three minutes no more than five just put something down the attempt is not to be perfect right you can go back and change this afterwards and prove it so i'm going to talk about my big

picture goals in coming up with some for you so the first one and the first one is professional i do a lot of teaching i enjoy teaching i enjoy teaching because i found i think i'm providing the most value doing teaching i still do some pretty you know down and dirty hands-on technical work for sure as well some of my teaching is very technical as well i'm focusing more on my consulting and entrepreneurial classes in infosec and i want to teach primarily my own classes now the last time uh i know i'm remote now but the last time i was physically there i was teaching classes for the sands institute and i love their classes and i love

teaching them but i want to teach primarily my own i don't want to stop doing what i'm doing i just want to do a little less of it so that's one big picture goal okay how am i going to accomplish that what are my lower level supporting goals well i've got a team redesigning my website and a new one going up now which i'm doing video a week ah this should already be done i've outsourced this but things often take longer than we planned running my infosec consulting class soon i i've run it once i'm probably going to be running it again soon i just finished a solid first draft of my next book tentatively called infosec consulting

101 but guess what it's just too big so it's probably going to be more than one book also i'm pretty sure i want to run a virtual conference this fall on consulting in entrepreneurism or entrepreneurship in infosec and my plan is i think it's gonna be totally free to attend maybe a small fee for recordings of sessions because it's gonna cost me some money to pull this off so these are some of my supporting goals i want to continue to do my work with sans including running my consulting classes with a we pull those joint decision because of the pandemic right now i'm submitting some of my classes including my consulting classes to conferences supposed to be teaching one of my

classes with the isc squared security congress uh which is is it next month or is it november i'm not sure i'm not doing that because they've really scaled back we're talking about the next year i'm going to be submitting to the wild west hacking fest i've got good friends there so hopefully they'll take that brew con in brussels that one's difficult because i have good friends there and they see my names on something they recuse themselves and people never heard me look at it black hat's a possibility it's a long shot and i'm open to ideas i'm creating lots of free resources to help people and to help me with marketing right i love giving talks like this i'm doing a

bunch of webinars i may have some sort of coaching or mentoring or mastermind groups in the future although no immediate plans so i have a bunch of supporting goals now let's say some of these just don't happen for whatever reason does that matter no they're only there to support the big picture goal i want to teach primarily my own classes now i have two other big picture goals one's going to seem a little strange and a little personal i'm not sure i'm 100 comfortable discussing it but i'm going to my second i want to spend more time with family family is very important to me i have three teenagers one of them is 20 years old he's still a

teenager my mind my 17 year old on the other hand she's been an adult she's since she's been 12. want to spend more time with them this is hard because they're teenagers they often have cooler things to do to hang out with dad and my mother my mother's 87 who knows how long she'll be around hopefully another decade plus right so supporting goals getting my kids involved in my consulting business my middle daughter this has worked out pretty well i've got a a new free version of my in my uh infosec rockstar booklet not the whole book but the booklet called it's gonna be called something like infosec rockstar 2020 and beyond or something like that or pandemic

she's helping me write that that's working out great my son who is quite entrepreneurial and is actually going to a business college yeah kind of hard to get him involved in anything he has all these ideas and doesn't listen so mixed success definitely taking classes with my kids i took a professional bartending in person class recently with my son he wants to be a professional bartender to make money going through college like i'll take the class with you it was kind of fun although i never want to be a professional bartender i don't think teaching my son to fly fish my two daughters are very athletic we've been running together not marathons and uh they put up with me

i'm like really slow compared to them my mother's stubborn right she insists on like going out and she's not isolating that well but i'm doing my best doing the shopping for her to help her out and just to spend more time with her i'm cooking with my middle daughter my middle daughter has gone vegan at least for a while so guess what i'm vegan one meal a day and i cook stuff with her and we have fun so let's say some of these supporting goals don't work out let's say for example i never teach my son to fly fish we never go again or my middle daughter and i don't cook ever again does that mean

i'm not spending more time with family no these are just you know things to help do that now my next one and this one is definitely maybe a little weird uh i won't have a more peaceful life and i put people in quotes because we might define that in different ways i know some of you probably know me personally and my life is chaotic i seem to thrive on chaos but i'm tired of it i do have some supporting goals as of today i've meditated for 30 something days i think it's 34 solid i have no idea if i'm doing it right or if it's helping but i'm gonna keep it up for a while i'm

really good at working under pressure and getting things done at the last minute because i am a world-class procrastinator sometimes uh i'm trying to get work done ahead of time i've always tried to do way too much and boy my not to do list helps with this i'm reading peaceful books however you might define peaceful books right peaceful instead of motivating books to try to convince me to do more my youngest daughter she's 16 she's upstairs right now she doesn't get along with her mother well all the time they fight a lot not always so she's living primarily with me itch is more peaceful those are my three big goals now i would suggest you think about big

picture goals for you a small number maybe three no more than five now you can jot down you know 10 10 12 ideas and even if you don't pick one of these big picture goals is one of the ones you're concentrating on that doesn't mean you're not making progress on them you're just not focusing on them so here's some big picture goals people mentioned from the one time before i gave this talk a bunch of people said they want to get in shape right uh we're not the most fit necessarily in this field because we tend to sit and look at computers a lot that three people tell tell me they wanted to learn digital forensics one of

them is not remotely involved in forensics she's just interested and just wants to study it and uh and hopefully learn a bunch and maybe move into that field or see if she wants to i have one friend actually in town who's uh wants to be a consultant and he's working towards that doing a number of things to prepare i've had one person tell me they want to get much more involved and capture the flag competitions both to get better at it to see if possibly they want to move into pen testing and they also want to build their own cts i think that would be fun that's one of their big picture goals one person

said they wanted to consolidate their life and i put that in quotes because i'm not exactly sure what they mean i know how i interpret that but our goals are personal right now remember you need not just goals but you need a plan and some metrics are good too along the way to see how you're doing now some success tips for planning first of all a small number of big picture goals write them down i like physical paper it doesn't matter how you write them down i'll talk about exactly how i do this in a second a small number i got three right now might change them in three months might change them in six months i do

review and possibly change usually on a quarterly basis for me now very important you have to look at them regularly i'm going to claim and i'm lying only a little bit that i look on a daily basis i try to look on a daily basis that doesn't always happen now people ask exactly what i use i use something called michael hyatt's full focus planner it is a hard bound book a physical planner and i probably use 10 of the pages in it but i love it i've been using that for almost two years russell eubanks who some of you may know since he's in our field and spends a lot of time teaching and consulting and speaking

he's the one that turned me on it i love that i also use evernote i use the free version of evernote i have a copy of my big picture goals in most of my smaller picture supporting goals i'm using the free version right now and it synchronizes between my laptop and my cell phone and so i was just i was yesterday or the day before i was at the dentist i had like three minutes i just went and i reviewed the goals and i looked like yeah no surprise it's what was there last time but it helps remind me and move me forwards now remember smaller picture supporting goals right they're important mainly as support some of them may

totally fail or have partial success and that's okay now expect some failures and difficulties along the way for sure absolutely just don't give up a friend of mine wanted to get fit or they want to get less unhealthy it was their last ditch effort at losing weight before weight loss surgery stomach stapling or bands or whatever they got they were in a doctor assisted diet a liquid diet they lost 80 pounds and one day they ate a potato chip one potato chip girl they're like oh i failed guess what they bought i'm not exaggerating a case of potato chips and they had potato chips in every single room an open bag they gave up because there was a failure that's a

partial failure and yeah they ended up having weight loss surgery which was not the ideal scenario big picture goals if they're significant here could it be a lot harder or maybe take longer to achieve right if you've got a big picture goal and you achieve it tomorrow it's not really a big picture goal and success could be possibly a very different form so the first big picture goal i said was to teach mainly my own classes what if tomorrow i get a call from an old friend that has some amazingly exciting sounding startup and i dive into that full time as well that might be even better right have you and let's say very successful in a very

different form you're saying love and fall in love with the f word which is fail there's gonna be a lot of failures along the way thomas edison supposedly had over 10 000 failures at looking for a filament for a light bulb that was actually practical would actually last more than a few seconds and be economical enough to be mass produced could have said they were failures or their experiments we kept learning things that didn't work along the way because you're going to learn a lot of things that don't work before you learn what works right you're going to have things that don't work along the path to more success now not everyone agrees with me here

but i think you only have one life some people separate their business life in their personal life and yes i do believe in having some distinction between the two although you really only have one life so there was one day last weekend where i literally didn't look at a computer or email for 36 hours man that was really hard for me right but really we have one life we have a business life and a personal life and they're blurred more than ever for many of us for me they've been blurred forever because i'm a consultant your long-term goals i think they should be both personal in business now you may focus on one area instead of another area depending on

what's going on in your life that's fine and i always overestimate what i can get done in the short term i think as general we overestimate what we can get done in the short term i know today i had a list of things i wanted to get done i actually got them done before now but i also woke up at five in the morning because i fell asleep on the couch last night at nine usually i do not get done what i want to get in a debt done in a day that's short term but i think we greatly underestimate what we get done in the long term and here's a very scary thought to me

what would you do if you thought you couldn't fail what kind of long-term goals or visions would you have if you're like i could probably do anything i want this scares me i find this to be a scary thought sometimes i would even want to think about this other times i spend time thinking it's it in perfect world i can do almost anything what do i want to do i want to be the first man to walk on mars or that's kind of crazy thinking but you know really what could you accomplish what would you do if you thought you know it's almost certainly gonna work i can't fail and that scares me but i find that to be

very motivating to think about so feel free to share your goals with me right in progress email me follow me on twitter or feel free to connect with me on linkedin and so forth and hopefully someday we can get back to normal life some days hopefully between i have a spare day when i'm working i'll be able to see the taj mahal again hopefully someday i'll have horrible jet lag again and say you know i may be complaining but it's pretty cool i mean i woke up in amsterdam all of a sudden so thank you everybody