Tag: Love

A simple bowl of cereal sitting with family trumps all other breakfasts

Delta first class cabin breakfast tray
few flights come with a breakfast like this

 

Unfathomable what it would be like in this economy to be doing something we don’t love to do.

Tough enough when we are doing daily work transforming lives.

This is difficult challenging work in and of itself.

And what if we have to do a significant amount of work that wasn’t something that excites us?

We see this everyday. All day.

It’s our job as CEO of You, Inc to figure this out.

To create at least a 51% ‘get to do’.

The predominant goal is to push our work processes and structure so that our ‘get to do’ feels like 80-90%.

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If you are going to be trapped, pick the one that lights your fire

Promises, promises, eh?
Promises, promises, eh?

 

On the plane yesterday an epiphany. A short 30-minute flight, and a headache, from Buffalo to Detroit. No ambition to squeeze in work, not even to read a few more pages of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book.

We talked most of the flight. She’s been in sales with the same company, traveling every week of the year (Monday through Thursday night) and hates it. But she’s trapped – there is nowhere she can go and make the kind of money she makes.

Without thinking, shared my philosophy about work and purpose and money.

In the process realized that excelling at your current job will never earn remarkable salary increases.

That happens only by climbing the ladder.

If you are going to be trapped, pick the one that lights your fire.

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