“If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you want to learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.”
– Warren Buffet, from chapter one of Marcus Buckingham’s Now Discover Your Strengths
Fourteen years later it still may well be the best business book I’ve ever read.
In this leadoff quote, Buffet was addressing a group of college students, all of whom were hoping to learn just what it was that made the Oracle of Omaha so much more successful than…well, than anyone.
“I get up every day… and do what I love to do, every day…”
Whodda thunkit?
What if it really is that simple? What if it’s less about the promotion or the presentation or the collection call or the meeting, and completely about simply teeing up our world every morning to align with the gifts God gave us and the experiences we’ve had when we’re in “flow mode?”
We ought to ask ourselves a few questions:
1) Whadda we love to do?
2) How can we get up every day and do that thing, every day?
3) Whadda we gonna do about all the crap that stands between what we do now and what we love to do?
These are not easy questions for most, and therefore, easy answers should not be expected.
Why this post, today? On Thursday, I had lunch with two amazing entrepreneurs — and for an hour and 23 minutes I was doing it. Teaching. Coaching. Challenging. Reinforcing. Guiding. Learning. I gotta get back to doing that every day.
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