I have been thinking almost nonstop about innovation – both at work (well, mostly at work), but also in my personal life. It’s actually almost impossible for me to stop thinking, analysing, hashing and rehashing every little thing.
For the past few months work has been foremost in my life. Hiring someone to help me has freed me up for implementing some of the day dreams at work. There is constantly a tension between settling into my position and enjoying the daily grind, and never being satisfied with the status quo.
This applies to my personal life as well. I’m much better at brainstorming than at actually doing (well, maybe not MUCH better, but it does seem much easier.) I realize I’m not alone in this, but that doesn’t make it less frustrating.
My brother gave me a book to read, The 4-hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss.
It may not be all it promises it will be, but it is certainly an amazing exercise in re-evaluating my assumptions about what my life and my job are supposed to be like. What are my goals? What am I working for? What do I want to be now, not just when I grow up.
What am I accomplishing by getting to work early, working through my lunch break, and leaving late? Why do I bring work home? What’s the point? What do I really want out of life?
I don’t look at these questions the same way the author of 4Hour Work Week does, because my perspective is more Heaven-oriented, but his concept of having more free time and enough money to make your dreams come true can definitely be geared towards that too.
If I am working so hard to ultimately help the staff and students at Mueller College have a better life while they’re in my presence, then asking these questions is going to be so helpful and in fact essential. I’ve got to ask them in order to Clarify the Win daily, and in the long term.
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