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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
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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 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
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
"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
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
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 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 photo: ruhig, deviantart.com Making Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy Personal Life Objective: to BEcome and continually BE a person of positive inspiration, influence, and lasting impact BE a human Being not just a human doing Change "Change is inevitable. Growth is optional." ―John C. Maxwell, Bestselling Author - Speaker “Growth is the process of responding positively to change.” ―Paul Harvey, American Radio Broadcaster “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ―-Gandhi, Leader of India’s Independence Movement “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ―Eckhart Tolle Our current world and business climate greatest communications innovations of the 20th century:
the current future that is happening now...in real time…
most of us… (and this includes most of the world)… now carry personal mobile phone/handheld computing and information gathering and buying and gaming… and can do all kinds of other things… device(s) So what does this mean for today’s working and business persons… who are …learning and trying to keep up with all that is necessary to learn… to do meaningful, sustainable work and business in a new and very economy and economic climate?… The same principles apply that have always applied… “Study the past if you would define the future.” -Confucius "Find what you like to do, do well, and strive to do it with excellence." -Anony Now we just have different and “better” access to tools and information… Than ever before in the history of mankind on our planet! What is the difference between having a JOB v. doing Meaningful Sustainable Work? A JOB is voluntarily exchanging your talent, skills, and time to receive income or compensation. versus Meaning Sustainable Work includes… experiencing and doing work in a different and meaningful way. Working at jobs, careers, and enterprise businesses in ways that allow those doing the work and providing special services to experience their work as more motivating, meaningful, or sustainable over time. Sustainable work is participating and practicing principles that create potential for experiencing work in a different way than what has been the old standard. What was the “old standard”? …at the turn of the last century, our schools and institutions were designed primarily for perpetuating either managing or working in factories… that is training of an “upper class” to manage a “lower class” of working uneducated immigrants… to run factories… We went from being primarily an agricultural society to being an industrial society… …and our citizens were trained to stand in line… sit down, shut up… do what we were told… when we could eat and take breaks… etc… In many ways we are still functioning that way behaviorally… and especially in how we perceive and approach work… even now 13 years into the 21st century… So how do we… Make Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy? next: A series on how to Make Work Meaningful and Sustainable in the New Economy
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