What would it take?
In this last month of the year, here's a reflective post.
Some inspiring quotes from Monk and Riddle by Randy Komisar:
" I inevitably find personal risks that need to be considered along with the business risks. Personal risks include the risk of working with people you don’t respect; the risk of working for a company whose values are inconsistent with your own; the risk of compromising what’s important; the risk of doing something you don’t care about; and the risk of doing something that fails to express - or even contradicts - who you are. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy the freedom to do it later.. personal risk usually defies quantification. It’s a matter of values and priorities, an expression of who you are..Most of us have inherited notions of “success” from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game. Personal goals on the other hand, leave us on their own, without this habit of useless measurement and comparison.
Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset - time - to what is most meaningful to you. What are you willing to do for the rest of your life? does not mean, literally, what will you do for the rest of the life? That question would be absurb, given the inevitability of change. No, what the question really asks is, if your life were to end suddenly and unexpectedly tomorrow, would you be able to say what you’ve been doing is what you truly care about today? What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life? What would it take to do it right now?
Don’t confuse drive and passion. Drive pushes you forward. It’s a duty, an obligation. Passion pulls you. It’s the sense of connection you feel when the work you do expresses who you are. Only passion will get you through the tough times."
Posted in: Thoughts on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at
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