Just Do It #1

I’m lucky enough not to work in a place that has motivational posters.  They’re smart - they know we’ll all - at best - sneer at them.

But quick, throwaway phrases can be helpful, especially when you’re exhausted and your body’s drenched in adrenalin, and the buffer zones of carefully-constructed cognition are crumbling in the face of your inner waaah that just wants to give up and go home and, incidentally, eat a large plate of biscuits, or possibly ALL THE CHEESE.

So this tag series is for those small pre-fabricated tools that help me get the chuff on with it.

This first is from a somewhat unlikely source: Neil Gaiman.  One of the earliest solo novels that this mop-haired literary skinnymalink produced, American Gods, introduces a first-time convict character, Shadow:

“One thing he had learned early, you do your own time in prison. You don’t do anyone else’s time for them.

“Keep your head down. Do your own time.”

I find myself using this phrase a great deal in the gym - when looking at the bigger weights, higher resistance, or faster speeds that anyone else is doing nearby, projecting judgement.

Do your own time, Roberts.  Okay...

Anyone have any other little gems for this tag series?