work in progress

Sometimes good enough is good enough. Sometimes it's not. This is my take on how what I thought was good could actually get a lot better, and how I know when good enough is actually good enough.

It's hard to describe how much help I've gotten from Dan Harrin in getting to use the alpha version of Filament. It feels really good that I was able to help him with his Laracasts series to make it as great as it can be.

I have committed to doing another Laracasts series. I'm super excited and have a lot of reasons why I need to get this done and do it well.

I have to learn this lesson again and again, but it's true.

I have a way that I really like to run a linter against my code. I knew Twitter would hate it. Do I care? No. Should I care? No. Find things that work for you and do them. Unless there's a good reason not to do it "your way", then don't worry about anyone else.

I just submitted a talk at Laracon and I hope I get picked as a speaker. I want to pull together all the best advice and ideas from people in the Laravel community and weave it into one talk. I'm pumped about it!

Most things in life are hard. When we have to make a decision, it's rarely between one easy thing and one hard thing. So if both things are hard, then choose the hard one that benefits you in other ways.

I had a situation at the beginning of the year that helped me put my life into perspective and focus on what really matters. Making updates on this podcast is one of those things.

As we get to the season of "New Year's Resolutions", I have found that a personal assertion that I learned from author Gary John Bishop is very helpful in convincing yourself to make real changes in your life.

I have changed my mindset recently to think about doing things in "seasons". Instead of trying something new and thinking, "I will do this forever" and then feeling like a failure when I stop doing that thing, I consider most things in my life seasons. They have a starting point and they will almost certainly have an ending point, and that's okay. It's not a failure to stop doing something, it's just time to move on.