Comments on: “fight like hell. this is it.”

By: Remember Who You Are « like a giraffe

Remember Who You Are « like a giraffe — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:40:27 +0000

[…] media contact with me whatsoever is painfully aware, I’m like omg totally obsessed with GapingVoid.com. Hugh McLeod, the genius behind the site’s cartoons (and general awesomeness), recently […]

By: This is it. Fight like hell. — Magick of Thought

This is it. Fight like hell. — Magick of Thought — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:44:23 +0000

[…] Hugh Macleod’s art inspires me to make good decisions. […]

By: Mariana N. Blaser

Mariana N. Blaser — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:21:51 +0000

Yeah, I’m in the “fighting like hell” part, and when I reach the “this is it” moment I’ll tell you, ok?

Thanks so much for this post. I totally relate to it.

By: Shared Items for the week of December 26, 2009* | Andrew Ferguson

Shared Items for the week of December 26, 2009* | Andrew Ferguson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:42:26 +0000

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By: Favorite Blogs of 2009

Favorite Blogs of 2009 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:44:26 +0000

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By: Caterwauling

Caterwauling — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:46:00 +0000

[…] Similarly, I’m training myself to live like this is it. (Here’s a great blog entry from Gaping Void, telling us to fight like hell, because this is it.) […]

By: Catherine Lathwell

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:33:57 +0000

I just put this one on my wall paper.

By: Adrian Dayton

Adrian Dayton — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:54:42 +0000

I think this is awesome.

This is it.
Carpe Diem.

Most people live their lives wishing they could be brilliant or passionate about what they do– your post is a great reminder that it is the ONLY way to live our lives. At least that is a good goal for the coming year.

Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while you might miss it. –Ferris Bueller

By: Hugh MacLeod

Hugh MacLeod — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:13:16 +0000

Karen, I don’t think it is shallow and sad. I think it describes a lot of Nitpickers out there. I think the world is awash with them.

Actually, I’ve already forgotten what we were arguing about

By: karen linderman

karen linderman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:38:01 +0000

“Why do people have to nitpick and miss the larger point…”

Short Answer: Because it helps them feel absolved of any responsibility to have to “Fight Like Hell”, to have to say to themselves, “This Is It”.

Wow, That is unbelievably shallow and sad. Is that what you think of the people who post to your blog? That it absolves them of any responsibility to have to ‘Fight Like Hell’ to have to say to themselves, “This is it.”

Why do you think people even spend the time to read your posts and respond to them?? It is a conversation and a way to have dialogue with others in a virtual space.

It takes some back and forth conversation sometimes for things to be understood by all, especially if you are not precise with the word and really, who is?

By: Matthew Dollinger

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:32:11 +0000

Hugh,

Thank you for writing this post. I too had to be shown the door in a previous position to find my “this is it” which I believe I have (at the moment… is that a contradiction then?).

Anyway as an executive coach I can identify with this completely and have already sent it on to those I work with. Have a wonderful holiday and thanks for sharing.

Matt

By: Carl Nelson

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:33:08 +0000

Wonderful post Hugh.

And, yeah it’s easier to complain than getting out there living it.

If it’s not worth fighting for, why are you doing it.

By: Martha Hart

Martha Hart — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:05:51 +0000

Thanks for this, Hugh — turning it around for all my soc/med contacts… bought 2 copies of your book, blew away the folks I gave them to.

Working at a day job that’s draining me, wrote a book this year 15 minutes at a time — in doc-office waiting rooms, getting up an hour early, not watching tv. Zero-tolerance on excuses.

Quote from great photographer Walker Evans: “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”

Happy holidaze… thanks for sharing.

By: Cory Bagozzi

Cory Bagozzi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:12:59 +0000

Hugh, you just rule

By: Wogan

Wogan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:30:47 +0000

? Nowhere did I mention that you need other people to pressure you to do anything.

It really seems like more of a “groove” than a “zone” — especially if a “zone” is that place in which things just *happen*. And one of the characteristics of a groove is that it goes somewhere.

It’s when stuff stops, when it gets “as good as it’s going to”, that you should start worrying. That was my point.

~ Wogan