What's Your Motivation?
Lying on a beach always offers some much-needed perspective. While “chillaxing” (my daughter’s word) in Puerto Rico last week, here’s a brief list of subjects that I didn’t think about:
Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Marketing, Tipping Points, Long Tails, etc. Nope, none o’ that.
Instead, in-between pina coladas, I mused about the future. How much longer do I want to work? Where should my wife and I settle down, after the kids trundle off to college? Where else on the map do I want to visit before I kick the bucket? What are my biggest ambitions for SHIFT?
It’s important to know where you’re headed, and to also gain a clear perspective on what’s motivating you to get there.
I am sure that within a few days, I’ll re-engage with the Social Media sphere. But for now I am actually enjoying this Blue Sky, Big World feeling. The suntan will fade, but the path ahead will have been blazed a bit more clearly.
What do YOU dream about? A log-cabin in the woods? A beach house? A trip to Egypt? A million-dollar bank balance? A houseful of grandkids? A shiny new BMW? World peace?
Do you have a clear goal? Do you do at least one thing per day to help get you there? What motivates you?
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It's interesting to hear these musings coming from a established professional. As someone new to the field, I'm constantly evaluating myself -- what I'm learning, where I want to be in the next few years, and what I have to do to get there. Right now life is focused on learning and establishing myself in the field so it's hard to imagine a time that I'll be considering, with the same degree of uncertainty, how to transition into something new. I guess it's this constant self-evaluation that keeps us on track.
Posted by: Megan | February 28, 2008 11:05 AM