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series key 5: Build Your Own Boat - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny #living #purpose #objectives

3/24/2013

Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

series key 5: Build Your Own Boat…
(and, not just a life raft)

your "boat" is your escape vehicle.
your "boat" must be a safe, reliable "escape vehicle".
your "boat" is your business, your enterprise, your freedom and independence.
your "boat" is your dream and vision manifested.

Noah built the ark before it was raining… and the work was done on his own time and in addition to his “real job”.

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." — Napoleon Hill

Create something new...

A new way to do something old… use tried and true principles with innovative application.

"We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it." — Earl Nightingale

Do it better, do it differently, do it relevantly.

Introduction: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
-The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
Overview: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 1: Stay Connected - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 2: Innovate - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 3: Volunteer - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 4: Get a Job - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 5: Build Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 6: Sail Away on Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 7: Live Your Dream - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

series - key 4: Get a Job - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny #living #purpose #objectives

3/24/2013

Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

series - key 4: Get a Job
-while you are building your dream - pursuing your life's passion(s) and work

Find good work to do… Work hard at it… Do good work.

In Christian historical tradition, one of the key early founders of the fledgling "religion", Paul of Tarsus had a job.

"After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a certain man named Aquila, born in Pontus, And, because he was of the same trade, he stayed with him and worked; for by occupation they were both tentmakers." -Bible, Acts 18:1-4

Why would a highly educated, tremendously talented and important key figure do "manual labor"? Paul "got a job" in order not be a financial burden on others, nor to disrupt or detract from his ultimate purpose.

"A good hedge against the risks of starting your own business is to start up while you still have a job that pays a regular salary and benefits. If you're in a position to do that, you'll have the best of both worlds."
-entrepreneurs.about.com

Be reliable, dependable… predictable in the sense that you can be counted on.
" If you become a person that people depend upon, or rely on, then you will find a sense of accomplishment and feel much more independent. People will respect you more and see you as someone who is ready and able to help, and that's one of life's greatest achievements." -wikihow.com/Be-Dependable

Building reputation is ones most important asset, no matter what objective or enterprise being pursued.
Dependability is the most important quality for business and other enterprises.
A trustworthy person is a reliable person. A reliable person can be counted to follow-through and be true to his or her word. A dependable person will be trusted to keep his or her commitments.

Introduction: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
-The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
Overview: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 1: Stay Connected - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 2: Innovate - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 3: Volunteer - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 4: Get a Job - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 5: Build Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 6: Sail Away on Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 7: Live Your Dream - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

we must always be expressively creating... #spirit #creativity #reflection

3/24/2013

we must always be expressively creating...

that best reflects our Creator...

finding yourself? good luck with that.
creating the best self... that's the one to work on.

Palm Sunday reflection... #popular #living #spirit

3/24/2013

Palm Sunday reflection...

the choice is always passion of vision over what is popular.

"Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves." -Mia Wasikowska

http://youtu.be/BPi2r2j70Zc

be curious... be creative... move forward #life #creativity #progress

3/22/2013

be curious... be creative... move forward

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance..." -Albert Einstein

series - key 3: Volunteer - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny #living #purpose #objectives

3/20/2013

Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

series key 3: Give - Volunteer

Providing and giving of service will…

make yourself available - be noticed doing something good,

experience what is meaningful,

become and be valuable,

discover new fellow associate volunteers - likeminded thinkers,

identify what service(s) you can provide and to whom you will provide service.

Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits - Helping Yourself While Helping Others

"One of the better-known benefits of volunteering is the impact on the community. Unpaid volunteers are often the glue that holds a community together. Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and make it a better place. However, volunteering is a two-way street, and it can benefit you and your family as much as the cause you choose to help. Dedicating your time as a volunteer helps you make new friends, expand your network, and boost your social skills." -helpguide.org

Volunteering helps you make new friends and contacts
Volunteering increases your social and relationship skills
Volunteering increases self-confidence
Volunteering combats depression
Volunteering helps you stay physically healthy
Volunteering can provide career experience
Volunteering can teach you valuable job skills

source: helpguide.org

Introduction: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
-The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
Overview: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 1: Stay Connected - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 2: Innovate - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 3: Volunteer - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 4: Get a Job - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 5: Build Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 6: Sail Away on Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 7: Live Your Dream - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

leap... sail... soar... #sail #life #adventure

3/20/2013

leap... sail... soar...

“The winds of grace are always blowing. All we need do is raise our sails.” -Anony

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”
-August Hare

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

series - key 2: Innovate - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny #living #purpose #objectives

3/19/2013

Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

series key 2: Innovate - What is new? How does it apply to me? How can it propel me forward?

"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." -Albert Einstein

Social Media/New Media

Utilize innovation and current technologies and the many new media options.
Learn about new media options, how they can be easily incorporated into your personal objectives and plans.
Educate yourself about how to utilize new media, engage, interact, advance your personal vision.
Understand the value of various types of interactive communication, how, when, and where to use them.

"Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. It introduces substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities and individuals." -Wikipedia

Popular social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+, Blogs. Meetup and hundreds more. There are also special interest sites for interacting with focused peer groups. For instance for the reading and books community: Shelfspace, Goodreads, Authonomy.

"New media refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation. Another aspect of new media is the real-time generation of new, unregulated content.The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over the world and the Internet. It has allowed people to express themselves through blogs, websites, pictures, and other user-generated media." -Wikipedia

Be innovative in finding new ways to use these new mediums - innovations

Build best practices habits - utilizing new technologies - vehicles
Build peer groups - affinity groups to learn, strategize, and with whom to test drive new ideas
Structure better time management practices - online meetings, groups, online communication

Utilize innovation - New Media to “get on the right trail” to “get to the right stream and current flow”

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Andre Gide

Move in the right direction… to the big “blue ocean” of opportunity…
As opposed to trying to compete in the “Red Ocean Strategy”, the conventional approach to business
of beating competition derived from military strategy.
Innovation helps to adapt to change and to create new opportunities and progressive changes

Blue ocean strategy generally refers to the creation by a company of a new, uncontested market space
that makes competitors irrelevant and that creates new consumer value often while decreasing costs
and emphasizes innovation and initiative.

Suggested reading:
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of The Blue Ocean Strategy Institute
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles

Introduction: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
-The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
Overview: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 1: Stay Connected - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 2: Innovate - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 3: Volunteer - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 4: Get a Job - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 5: Build Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 6: Sail Away on Your Boat- The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny
series - key 7: Live Your Dream - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny

greatest miracle... #living #spirit #joy

3/16/2013

"Consider a painting by Rembrandt or a bronze by Degas or a violin by Stradivarius or a play by Shakespeare. They have great value for two reasons: their creators were masters and they are few in number. Yet there are more than one of each of these.

On that reasoning you are the most valuable treasure on the face of the earth, for you know who created you and there is only one of you.

Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.

Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.

You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.

Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in World

the good LIFE... #living #love #happiness

3/14/2013

... the good LIFE...

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, there is a rhythm of rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.
Forget yourself." -Henry Miller