Tag: pain

What pain at work

recycling website
When i typed my (personally owned) URL that had to do with our homeowners association, this is where visitors get redirected because…
post it note handwritten note
DNS means Domain Name Server.
GoDaddy admin screen
Yesterday’s experience was the nudge i needed to delete my GoDaddy Legacy (2008) account and the four domain names and their associated URL’s.

There’s pain in negative work experiences, disappointments, and unproductive work sacrifices.

Pain teaches us.

The more pain we experience, the more education we get.

We can learn which pain is an investment and which pain is bankruptcy.

Investment pain is pain we welcome because we know believe it leads somewhere good. Perfect example is the 2008 decision to start my own business so that in 2014 (after 30 years at Disney) i could retire from Disney and go out on my own. Doing the same thing i did at Disney Institute, but being in charge of everything, especially my travel schedule.

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This website is about our WORK. To ponder today’s post about our HOME, click here.

Grow, rest, recover, repeat

Purpose eats strategy for breakfast. Photo: Yesterday on Facebook.

Grow, rest, recover, repeat.

Let me unpack that last sentence.

Push yourself.

Reflect on what happened and why.

Adjust what you do moving forward based on your reflection.

Repeat the simple process to continuously improve.

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Patience and pain can turn into astonishing opportunity

Unique honeymoon ideas
A 1984 international bicycle trek (on a honeymoon no less) was never something i could have predicted.

 

Turned the corner on a steep and impatient learning curve.

Thank goodness for trust. It allows patience and pain to be an opportunity rather than an illness.

In reality, i was unprepared for having to negotiate six-figure cultural transformation contracts.

Why?

Because it was never part of my future.

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