Posts tagged work
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Benjamin Franklin
Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.
Unknown
Making money isn’t hard in itself. What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Steven Pressfield
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Business Jenga” - Many of the elements necessary in building a successful business are also required to see your dream to fruition. Which piece are you missing?
Is your heart in your dream? If so, pursue it. If not, don’t.
What have you made more of a priority - pursuing work that pays well or pursuing work that fulfills well?
…unless it is spent during time when you should be doing the WORK required to make your dream a reality!
Make a Dent in the Universe
Another great excerpt from Rework on doing work that matters:
To do great work, you need to feel that you’re making a difference. That you’re putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you’re part of something important.
This doesn’t mean you need to find the cure for cancer. It’s just that your efforts need to feel valuable. You want your customers to say, “This makes my life better.” You want to feel that if you stopped doing what you do, people would notice.
You should feel an urgency about this too. You don’t have forever. This is your life’s work. Do you want to build just another me-too product or do you want to shake things up? What you do is your legacy. Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don’t think it takes a huge team to make that difference either…
Look at Craigslist, which demolished the traditional classified -ad business. With just a few dozen employees, the company generates tens of millions in revenue, has one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and disrupted the entire newspaper business.
The Drudge Report, run by Matt Drudge, is just one simple page on the Web run by one guy. Yet it’s had a huge impact on the news industry - television producers, radio talk show hosts and newspaper reporters routinely view it as the go-to place for new stories.
If you’re going to do something, do something that matters. These little guys came out of nowhere and destroyed old models that had been around for decades. You can do the same in your industry.
The work that the fulfillment of your dream will require is work that matters! Pursue it! The world is waiting!
I’d like to know…
Why does your work matter?
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.
