“Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
– William Shakespeare
What’s the best job you ever had? Was it the highest paying? (If so, that’s a bonus!) Odds are it was the one where you could literally feel that what you were doing made a difference.
Study after study shows that if people believe their work is meaningful, and if there are clear measures for them to see their progress, they tend to like what they do a lot.
Corporations today get so focused on the scoreboard that sometimes it’s too easy to lose sight of the “doing,” the things that actually produce the score. What is it that you do in the course of the day that brings you joy? Are there things that sidetrack you and make you lose sight of how good it feels to raise the bar, to make progress? What if we spent just :10 every day to focus on coming up with new ideas on how to do, better (or how to do better, for that matter…ya see, the comma matters there…)
What is it that we’re doing today, that will matter most tomorrow? How can we best protect the time for the doing?
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