I have a thought experiment for people my age (or even a little younger) and me: stop getting annoyed by the younger, entitled people in your business. I have been guilty of this, and I think I am wrong. We can get bothered by young people who aren't willing to [fill in the blank-work the hours, make the sacrifices, do what it takes] or because they [fill in the blank-want to be rewarded for what they do, expect too much from companies, etc.].

"Do you know that Joe is telling people that you aren't working and are just sleeping around?"  A fresh college graduate in my first job out of school, a co-worker shared this short but gut-wrenching piece of information with me. Joe (the name has been changed to protect the guilty) did a lot more harm than that.

I was fortunate in my twenties to get to be a volunteer for hospice as a patient companion. If you are too young to care about the word…hospice means taking care of people who are about to die, maybe in a week, maybe in six months.

Have you failed at something? Maybe your belly still churns when you think about an error you made or something you could have handled better.