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Great news! After a long series of interviews and meetings and over a month’s time, I have been offered and accepted an executive position with a local startup company. I’ll make a more formal announcement as things like contracts get figured out, but the gist of it is that I’m on a three-month, “trial contract” so that I can evaluate the company and they me. After that, we renegotiate salary and equity structures going forward.

I will be heading up their technology division, managing designers and developers, implementing best practices, running servers and cloud-based computing solutions, budgeting and forecasting, as well as rolling up my sleeves and writing code. The CEO and I are meeting with the CMO later today to discuss Marketing plans and Social Media strategies.

It feels like I’m home again, back doing what I love to do: Build companies. There are several interesting layers to this one, and its Big Idea is one that could have a profound effect on the interwebs in the the coming years. Love me a Big Idea. We’re well positioned to capitalize on a huge shift that is beginning to take place online. I’m energized and excited to be a part of it – so much so that I’m writing this post at 2am because I have too many things running around my head at the moment to fall asleep. (Writing always helps flush enough of them out that I settle down and can get back to bed after doing so.)

Yesterday was a great day! Not only did I get the position, but I was also able to quickly diagnose and resolve – with the help of our Android developer – one of the key bugs that had been plaguing the system for some time. It’s always nice to be able to make an immediate impact when in that initial proving ground stage.

More details as they become available! 🙂

I am writing today because I don’t feel like writing. This is one of the keys to success in just about any endeavor – the ability to push on doing the things you need to do even when you don’t feel like doing them. I believe it was Michael Jordan that said about being a professional basketball player, “Being a professional means doing the thing you love to do even when you don’t feel like doing it.” So I write.

I have several job opportunities I’m currently pursuing. Two are moving slower than I’d like, but such is life. I’m writing my emails, following up, asking questions, doing all that I can to move them along. But the next steps are dependent on other people and their schedules, so again I practice the thing I’ve become so good at recently: Patience.

I’m a man of action, a doer. I like getting things done. I like the sense of accomplishment from accomplishing my “Daily Wins“. Today has been a challenge to get things done. But I’ve kept moving forward, kept progressing, and take some sense of satisfaction in the small victories I’ve achieved today. Tomorrow bodes well, and I expect to continue progress on the new site I’m building then.

Yesterday was a great day, full of good news and accomplishments. Today it’s raining, any my energy has been off all day. I attribute it to the bunch of Red Vines I scarfed down yesterday – they were oh so tasty, but I think as I age I am becoming more susceptible to sugar hangovers. 🙂 Anyway, good things are ahead so on we go to the next day…

“You have to do the hard things. The things that no one else is doing. The things that scare you. The things that make you wonder how much longer you can hold on.

Those are the things that define you. Those are the things that make the difference between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.

The hard things are the easiest things to avoid. To excuse away. To pretend like they don’t apply to you.

The simple truth about how ordinary people accomplish outrageous feats of success is that they do the hard things that smarter, wealthier, more qualified people don’t have the courage — or desperation — to do.

Do the hard things. You might be surprised at how amazing you really are.”

Read a fantastic list of hard things you must do to succeed at Business Insider

Read more: http://danwaldschmidt.com/2014/01/attitude/hard-things#ixzz3F6kNqupT