work – giving the fullness of your brilliance and playing full out. Being widely passionate about your To
Do’s. Being breathtakingly committed to your big projects and best opportunities. Being a rock star in
whatever you do each day to put bread on your table.
Work gives meaning to our lives. It influences our self – worth and the way we perceive our place
under the sun. Being great at what you do isn’t just something you do for the organization you work for – it’s
a gift you give yourself. Being spectacularly great at your work promotes personal respect, excitement and
just makes your life a lot more interesting. Good things happen to people who do good things. And when
you bring your highest talents and deepest devotion to the work you do, what you are really doing is setting
yourself up for a richer, happier and more fulfilling experience of living.
How do you feel after an ultra – productive day? How do you feel when you’ve given your best, had
fun with your teammates and gone the extra mile for customers? How do you feel when you’ve brought
more heart to what you do for a living? How do you feel when you reached fro your greatest goals and
grabbed them? It feels pretty goof, doesn’t it? And you don’t need to have the biggest title to do the best
job. The point makes me think of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – one of my heroes – who ones
observed: “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo
painted, or as Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘here lived a great street sweeper who did his job
well.’”
And you don’t need to have the biggest title
to do the best job.
So be a rock star at work today. Walk onto the stage of this day and play your heart out. Give the
performance of your life. Wow your audience and get them cheering for you. Be the Bono of selling
staplers. Be the Keith Richards of accounting. Be the Jimi Hendrix of human resources. And when you get
famous and people from all over ask you for your autograph, make sure you drop a me a line. I’d love to
hear form you.
5.
Your Days Define Your Life
Big idea: Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live
your days, so your craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak,