At the recent Faffcon gathering (thank you again, Amy), several of us ‘fessed up to getting deep in depression the more we read online about the “great sessions” and “slammed schedules” and “most recent national payday” of our friends and colleagues in the biz.

We all recognized that a lot of those posts from genuine friends were written with only joy in mind….well, there are a few who are obviously rubbing it in, but we won’t go there.

Anyway, those of us who admitted to those moments might find encouragement in a recent post by the always-insightful Seth Godin.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/run-your-own-race.html

Read the whole post.  But the upshot is:  why burden yourself by running someone else’s race?

Why indeed.

— over and out —