http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/06/cheating-...
One way to do indispensable work is to show up more hours than everyone else. Excessive face time and candle-burning effort is sort of rare, and it's possible to leverage it into a kind of success. But if you're winning by cheating the clock, you're still cheating.
Best Week Ever unearths an audio kit that affirms how AWESOME you are! I, too, have always found that nothing peps me up more than being yelled at by a stranger.