I’m exhausted. I worked eleven hours today. And it wasn’t the work, but the emotional excitement and fatigue that comes with ideas and the wherewithal to execute on them.
I’m exhausted from putting myself out there and taking risks and worrying too much that I’m not doing the right things. I’m exhausted from working the entire weekend. I’m exhausted from missing my friends.
The last thing I want to do is write a blog post. But I made a promise to a fellow blogger. I made a promise to Dan Schawbel, author of Personal Branding Blog, and one of my first friends in the blogosphere. It’s appropriate that I made this promise to Dan because he is one of the hardest workers I know. And what I’ve been pushing myself to do the last few months, he has been doing much longer.
I met Dan in person when I was in Boston late last year, and he is a character. This doesn’t always come through in his blog, much to my dismay, because he is a great character. But Dan is masterful at crafting and presenting his own personal brand – a testament to his expertise on writing a blog on the same topic.
When you are done reading this post, Dan’s book will be out on Amazon. It’s called Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success. And you should go buy it.
It’s the type of book I wish I had in college – I would have devoured every word. It’s the kind of book I wanted when I graduated and was lost and confused. It’s the kind of book I read now and still learn from.
But you should also buy it because Dan has been the type of person to say hi to me on gchat for no reason. He is the type of person to be ever-so-complimentary, even when he disagrees with me. He’s the type of person who will help without asking, who is innocent to drama, who believes in what he does more than the majority of people I know.
He is the type of person that – after so much work and dedication – deserves to succeed.
Here’s to your success, Dan. I hope everyone buys your book.
