No surprise to many of you, I love parrots.
Why, because I love how they look.
More importantly, I love how they interact with others like and unlike them.
Because of that love, I want to learn more about them and be around as many of them as possible to enjoy all their antics.
It's a lot like watching and enabling people to work with others not like them.
I also love business.
Why, because I'm fascinated in growth possibilities.
I'm fascinated in how business works.
I'm endlessly curious about innovation and how it is perceived.
I want to learn as much as possible about different businesses; why decisions were made, where do they want to go.
I want to be around business people as much as possible to learn and explore.
I love hearing the passion in the vision and helping them define a strategy and tactical implementation plan.
I love defining a flexible architecture to enable the growth for decades to come.
I love the feeling of being helpful, even on a small scale.
Why, it makes me feel as if I've done something that matters, even if it is for just one individual at a specific moment in time.
I listen to many individuals for questions or those in a "stuck" state looking for ideas.
I love my husband, close friends, some relatives.
Why, for individual reasons.
I look for opportunities to be around them more, to interact with them, to be part of their lives.
What do you love? Write down 3-5 things you love and why.
Use my explanation to help you clarify what you love and why.
The opposite of love is hate.
Many individuals avoid this strong word.
I've heard people use dislike or disagree-- any word to soften the passion.
Unfortunately, diminishing the feeling diminishes opportunities for change.
Every emotion has a reverse emotion.
Love is much stronger than like.
The opposite of love is hate.
It is important to accept the word because it drives many decisions, consciously or unconsciously.
I'm sure a certain inventor hated carrying luggage to and from and between airports.
He hated it so much he decided to add wheels (and I'm thankful for it).
I hate to travel by airplane.
Not because I'm afraid to fly.
It's because I hate the way people are treated through the service.
I avoid many opportunities to do what I love because my hatred for air-travel is so strong.
It could waste so much of my time doing what I love.
Wasting time is another pet peeve (and why product or processes that save time are very attractive to me).
I hate working in a cubicle for a paid-for-attendance type assignment.
Most of this type of work is contractor versus consulting type work and I'm a consultant.
Contract work is deliverable-task-based thinking versus consulting which is value-based (improving my client's condition) thinking.
I LOVE to add value to a client, not just do a task to create a deliverable.
I, therefore, close some doors to opportunities accidentally forgetting to look for other means to make the assignment workable for adding value.
Other times I've used other mechanisms (teleconference) to achieve results faster than schlepping into the office.
Off-site work with occasional office meetings has produced equal results for clients.
What do you hate? Write down 3-5 things you hate.
What boundaries are you creating? Do they limit options and opportunities? Are you okay with the limitation? Do they spark productive action? I enjoy writing, speaking and consulting, a great deal.
I look for opportunities to use all of these skills.
I wouldn't say I love them, but really enjoy them.
People that love to write, speak and consult find every opportunity to use these skills with no limitations.
Because I enjoy these skills, I look to use them as a means to do what I love.
These skills are a means to an end to do what I love or to help me avoid what I hate.
These skills are important for me as a distribution or connection mechanism.
I don't LOVE it.
If I LOVED it, I would be the best like Patricia Fripp (a speaker for all reasons) who can speak about ANYTHING.
She LOVES speaking and will travel anywhere to speak on whatever topic you need.
She LOVES it so much, she practices every day and continues to be the best.
The things I enjoy don't have the same level of passion.
I just enjoy learning and practicing the skills but limit myself by how I use them.
Because I do not love to speak, I don't want to speak on everything.
I just speak on topics I love to audiences that rarely require a airfare to attend the lecture.
I enjoy these skills (writing, speaking and consulting) and practice them every day.
What do you enjoy doing? Not love or hate, but enjoy.
Write down 3-5 things you enjoy doing and how you use the opportunity to do what you love.
It is important to distinguish the difference between love, hate, like/enjoy? to understand what opportunities to look for and which skills you enjoy can be used to enhance these opportunities.
Passion to me expresses the level of love or hate for anything.
Love and hate are strong emotions that drive passion.
Passion triggers imagination.
You will ignite your imagination to fine ways to do what you love or to avoid what you hate.
To achieve the opportunities, you need to take action.
This is creativity.
Imagination isn't worth much without taking action.
Creativity is using your imagination to create ideas that help you achieve what you love and what you hate.
You will use your creativity to find opportunities through the use of skills to achieve them.
How creative are you? If all you do is your job, you probably aren't very creative.
You aren't creative because you do not enjoy the skills needed or have the passion behind the activity.
You don't enjoy the activity.
The activity doesn't enable what you love or hate.
You need to have a passion for what you love or hate.
If you hate something so much, you will be creative in avoiding the situation.
Webcasts are a perfect, creative example for people like me who hate to waste time on airplanes.
Yet, I love to interact with people not like me, especially in business.
Create webcasts to interact with more people regardless of where the person is located.
I write, speak and consult on the East coast to avoid air travel, unless the opportunity is so good to do what I love that the passion for what I love overrides my passion for avoiding air travel.
I love the interaction between people and groups.
I truly love being the bridge between business and IT.
I love learning the values and vision of an organization; turning their ideas into a strategy and tactical plan.
I love organizing flexible architectures to encourage growth.
Given an opportunity to do this, heck, I'll take a 24 hour flight.
I use what I enjoy to help others reach their goals.
I write blogs, articles, books.
I speak at conferences and chapter meetings.
The skills I enjoy doing, enable me to achieve what I love.
I continually use my imagination as to how can I use the skills I enjoy to do what I love.
This is the key to being the best.
People who are the best at something know what they love and why.
They recognize that what they hate sets boundaries yet can also trigger the imagination to be creative to pave the way to do what they love.
People that are the best at something know what they enjoy doing, strengthen related skills so they can be applied creatively in many more situations they can imagine.
The result is art, something unique, something of value, something that can make a difference in one's life as well as the lives of others.
Here is the process to doing work that matters:
You won't be happy and do work that matters unless you understand what you love and hate because your passion won't be ignited.
Identify what you love and hate.
Differentiate between what you love/hate and what you enjoy.
Next, look at what activities you enjoy doing.
Can your existing skill level at these activities help you to achieve more of what you love or avoid what you hate? What can you do to enhance these skills daily, even if it isn't for what you currently love or hate.
The goal is to strengthen skills you enjoy to be prepared when your imagination sparks ideas.
Opportunity is the merge between ideas, luck and preparedness.
Allow yourself to be wrong, to fail a few times.
Failure is just a test of your existing skill set, an opportunity to strengthen and grow your skills, to be prepared for the next time your curiosity and imagination sparks more original ideas.
Failure (even the very big costly ones) is the necessary process to help you find and do work that matters.
The more failures, the more refined your imagination will be to have moments of genius.
You are a genius when you do work that matters.
Why, because I love how they look.
More importantly, I love how they interact with others like and unlike them.
Because of that love, I want to learn more about them and be around as many of them as possible to enjoy all their antics.
It's a lot like watching and enabling people to work with others not like them.
I also love business.
Why, because I'm fascinated in growth possibilities.
I'm fascinated in how business works.
I'm endlessly curious about innovation and how it is perceived.
I want to learn as much as possible about different businesses; why decisions were made, where do they want to go.
I want to be around business people as much as possible to learn and explore.
I love hearing the passion in the vision and helping them define a strategy and tactical implementation plan.
I love defining a flexible architecture to enable the growth for decades to come.
I love the feeling of being helpful, even on a small scale.
Why, it makes me feel as if I've done something that matters, even if it is for just one individual at a specific moment in time.
I listen to many individuals for questions or those in a "stuck" state looking for ideas.
I love my husband, close friends, some relatives.
Why, for individual reasons.
I look for opportunities to be around them more, to interact with them, to be part of their lives.
What do you love? Write down 3-5 things you love and why.
Use my explanation to help you clarify what you love and why.
The opposite of love is hate.
Many individuals avoid this strong word.
I've heard people use dislike or disagree-- any word to soften the passion.
Unfortunately, diminishing the feeling diminishes opportunities for change.
Every emotion has a reverse emotion.
Love is much stronger than like.
The opposite of love is hate.
It is important to accept the word because it drives many decisions, consciously or unconsciously.
I'm sure a certain inventor hated carrying luggage to and from and between airports.
He hated it so much he decided to add wheels (and I'm thankful for it).
I hate to travel by airplane.
Not because I'm afraid to fly.
It's because I hate the way people are treated through the service.
I avoid many opportunities to do what I love because my hatred for air-travel is so strong.
It could waste so much of my time doing what I love.
Wasting time is another pet peeve (and why product or processes that save time are very attractive to me).
I hate working in a cubicle for a paid-for-attendance type assignment.
Most of this type of work is contractor versus consulting type work and I'm a consultant.
Contract work is deliverable-task-based thinking versus consulting which is value-based (improving my client's condition) thinking.
I LOVE to add value to a client, not just do a task to create a deliverable.
I, therefore, close some doors to opportunities accidentally forgetting to look for other means to make the assignment workable for adding value.
Other times I've used other mechanisms (teleconference) to achieve results faster than schlepping into the office.
Off-site work with occasional office meetings has produced equal results for clients.
What do you hate? Write down 3-5 things you hate.
What boundaries are you creating? Do they limit options and opportunities? Are you okay with the limitation? Do they spark productive action? I enjoy writing, speaking and consulting, a great deal.
I look for opportunities to use all of these skills.
I wouldn't say I love them, but really enjoy them.
People that love to write, speak and consult find every opportunity to use these skills with no limitations.
Because I enjoy these skills, I look to use them as a means to do what I love.
These skills are a means to an end to do what I love or to help me avoid what I hate.
These skills are important for me as a distribution or connection mechanism.
I don't LOVE it.
If I LOVED it, I would be the best like Patricia Fripp (a speaker for all reasons) who can speak about ANYTHING.
She LOVES speaking and will travel anywhere to speak on whatever topic you need.
She LOVES it so much, she practices every day and continues to be the best.
The things I enjoy don't have the same level of passion.
I just enjoy learning and practicing the skills but limit myself by how I use them.
Because I do not love to speak, I don't want to speak on everything.
I just speak on topics I love to audiences that rarely require a airfare to attend the lecture.
I enjoy these skills (writing, speaking and consulting) and practice them every day.
What do you enjoy doing? Not love or hate, but enjoy.
Write down 3-5 things you enjoy doing and how you use the opportunity to do what you love.
It is important to distinguish the difference between love, hate, like/enjoy? to understand what opportunities to look for and which skills you enjoy can be used to enhance these opportunities.
Passion to me expresses the level of love or hate for anything.
Love and hate are strong emotions that drive passion.
Passion triggers imagination.
You will ignite your imagination to fine ways to do what you love or to avoid what you hate.
To achieve the opportunities, you need to take action.
This is creativity.
Imagination isn't worth much without taking action.
Creativity is using your imagination to create ideas that help you achieve what you love and what you hate.
You will use your creativity to find opportunities through the use of skills to achieve them.
How creative are you? If all you do is your job, you probably aren't very creative.
You aren't creative because you do not enjoy the skills needed or have the passion behind the activity.
You don't enjoy the activity.
The activity doesn't enable what you love or hate.
You need to have a passion for what you love or hate.
If you hate something so much, you will be creative in avoiding the situation.
Webcasts are a perfect, creative example for people like me who hate to waste time on airplanes.
Yet, I love to interact with people not like me, especially in business.
Create webcasts to interact with more people regardless of where the person is located.
I write, speak and consult on the East coast to avoid air travel, unless the opportunity is so good to do what I love that the passion for what I love overrides my passion for avoiding air travel.
I love the interaction between people and groups.
I truly love being the bridge between business and IT.
I love learning the values and vision of an organization; turning their ideas into a strategy and tactical plan.
I love organizing flexible architectures to encourage growth.
Given an opportunity to do this, heck, I'll take a 24 hour flight.
I use what I enjoy to help others reach their goals.
I write blogs, articles, books.
I speak at conferences and chapter meetings.
The skills I enjoy doing, enable me to achieve what I love.
I continually use my imagination as to how can I use the skills I enjoy to do what I love.
This is the key to being the best.
People who are the best at something know what they love and why.
They recognize that what they hate sets boundaries yet can also trigger the imagination to be creative to pave the way to do what they love.
People that are the best at something know what they enjoy doing, strengthen related skills so they can be applied creatively in many more situations they can imagine.
The result is art, something unique, something of value, something that can make a difference in one's life as well as the lives of others.
Here is the process to doing work that matters:
- Love/Hate drives your Passion.
- Your Passion stimulates your curiosity and imagination.
- Your imagination sparks Ideas.
- Your Ideas and Passion for what you Love/Hate energizes you to be creative.
- You create art.
Sometimes it works sometimes it's wrong.
Your level of passion and curiosity will enable you keep creating art and have moments of genius. - Those passionate moments of genius are doing something that matters.
You won't be happy and do work that matters unless you understand what you love and hate because your passion won't be ignited.
Identify what you love and hate.
Differentiate between what you love/hate and what you enjoy.
Next, look at what activities you enjoy doing.
Can your existing skill level at these activities help you to achieve more of what you love or avoid what you hate? What can you do to enhance these skills daily, even if it isn't for what you currently love or hate.
The goal is to strengthen skills you enjoy to be prepared when your imagination sparks ideas.
Opportunity is the merge between ideas, luck and preparedness.
Allow yourself to be wrong, to fail a few times.
Failure is just a test of your existing skill set, an opportunity to strengthen and grow your skills, to be prepared for the next time your curiosity and imagination sparks more original ideas.
Failure (even the very big costly ones) is the necessary process to help you find and do work that matters.
The more failures, the more refined your imagination will be to have moments of genius.
You are a genius when you do work that matters.