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Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy - The 7 keys to regaining control of your life, work, and destiny 1. Stay Connected… Get Connected Stay connected with important sphere of influence from one’s experience Become connected within new spheres of influence and affinity groups… People want to do business and experience life w others that they Know, Like, Trust… And it helps a lot… if you/and they are someone to be admired and modeled… 2. Innovate Social Media/New Media Utilize innovation and current technologies and the many new media options, And be innovative in finding new ways to do that… Utilize innovation to “get on the right trail” to “get to the right stream and current flow” That is moving in the right direction… to the big “blue ocean” of opportunity… 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. As opposed to trying to compete in the “Red Ocean Strategy”, the conventional approach to business of beating competition derived from military strategy. 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 3. Give – Volunteer … Providing and giving of service will… make yourself available, 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. 4. Get a Job Find good work to do…Work hard at it… do good work. Be reliable, dependable… predictable in the sense that you can be counted on. 5. Build Your Own Boat… (and, not just a life raft) … but, a safe, reliable "escape vehicle"… Noah built the ark before it was raining… and the work was done on his own time and in addition to his “real job”. Create something new A new way to do something old… Do it better, do it differently, do it relevantly. 6. Sail Away on Your Boat Do the work and provide the service, solution, or product/productive contribution that you have always dreamed of… 7. Live Your Dream Story - The Mexican fisherman An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied, "Only a little while." The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?" The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life." The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise." The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?" To which the American replied, "15-20 years." "But what then?" The American laughed and said that's the best part. "When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions." "Millions… Then what?" The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos." Introduction: Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy Love... Peace... Joy... “Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new...” -Paul of Tarsus “Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ―C.S. Lewis "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." -Isa "Where there is faith, there is love; Where there is love, there is peace; Where there is peace, there is God; And where there is God; there is no need." -Leo Tolstoy "Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God, possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God, did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, but stripped Himself of all privileges and rightful dignity, so as to assume the guise of a servant, in that He became like men and was born a human being." -Paul of Tarsus "Where there is faith, there is love; Where there is love, there is peace; Where there is peace, there is God; And where there is God; there is no need." -Leo Tolstoy "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." -James the Apostle |
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