Had a great practice session with another good team today. The melody line today was around finding their purpose, passion, and process. This is a familiar practice theme. Very few individual, teams, and leaders EVER clearly find and articulate their own.
Today we heard a lot of team members clearly articulate their purpose and passion for their loved ones at home. Very few could do the same for their work. Most felt that their work was, well, their WORK. It was REAL. It was HARD. It was WORK. Actually it IS LABOR. Many of these people are wearing down…they just do NOT know it…yet. They will.
Here’s the sad and ironic part. Do NOT miss this. This is HUGE.
This team works their butt’s off at their place of work. This is a HARD working bunch. They go home and they take their labor with them. They get on their couch with their loved ones and do email all night. They labor some more.
They go to their soccer games, with their loved ones, and spend the whole time on their ‘crackberry.’ They labor at the field.
They take their 16 year olds to get their license and all they can think about is their projects at work. They labor during their ‘kairos’ moments too. This team labors and accepts that this is simply the way it must be. They have responsibilities you know.
Here is what does NOT add up. These are the same people that can NOT tell me they that love their work. They tell me and their team that they have purpose and passion for their loved ones at home. Yet they do NOT seem to ever actually BE home.
Why can’t they just GO home?
Are you a laboring at your work?
Are you laboring at your home?
Are you laboring with your GOD?
Are you laboring with your friends?
Are you kidding yourself?
Are you getting paid enough to sell out so easily?
Can you tell your team in work and in life why you LOVE them and why you LOVE this work?
When will you get the courage to ‘bust a rut’ and try a new road?
What are you sooooo afraid of?
Why? Why? Why?
BUILT TO LEAD 
Chet,
I don’t agree that experience is overrated…in fact, I think it is many times underrated.
IMO, energy cannot replace experience and, worse yet, can actually be a very costly substitute.
However, experience that is not shared and/or that is not coupled with energy is worthless.
There are very real synergies when the two are successfully brought together.
In our company, we are looking for experienced people with lots of energy, and energized people who value and learn from the experience of others to really propel their and our performance.
But for it really to work, we all have to be students of each other and keep our minds open…even to the ideas that our experience tells us have not worked in the past…did we put enough energy into it the first time?
My first blog…haha…see you soon!
It figures…my first response and I attached it to the wrong blog!
My experience/energy response should not have been posted to “GO home…”. It should’ve gone to “Rack’em up…”
Had the energy, but not the experience!
Love your perspective…it’s cool when we do not see “eye to eye.”
Now that you are an “experienced” keep the perspectives comin’.
Love your perspective…it’s cool when we do not see “eye to eye.”
Now that you are an “experienced” blogger, keep the perspectives comin’.