strategicpause

• Surround yourself with successful people in your field for inspiration or as a benchmark for yourself. Figure out what they did/what they know that makes them successful and emulate.
• Read as much as you can, as often as you can. A book can be like learning a new skill, or something to add to your resume.
• Don’t be afraid to take a shitty job if it leads to a better one. It’s something to add to the resume and everyone has to start out somewhere.
• Set long-term goals for yourself. People are always concerned about the short-term and forget about the long-term. For example, people take “high-paying” jobs straight out of high school instead of going to college. What these people don’t realize is that an even higher paying job is waiting for them behind a college degree.

Ironically I stopped watching so much TV when I bought myself a plasma HDTV. It didn’t come with a TV-tuner, thus I couldn’t hook up cable-television to it. I don’t find myself randomly turn on the television just to see what’s on anymore, thus giving me more time for activities such as homework and reading.
If I ever want to watch shows that I would normally watch, I can usually watch them online (like via iTunes) or I get up and physically move myself to another room that has cable.