First, the BIZ
As the title of this post suggests, your life is your business. Ok, so it's not really a suggestion as it is a statement complete with an exclamation point to make it stand out. But I digress.
On the surface, many of us don't have a business of our own such as a Dairy Queen franchise or a little shop on Ebay or Cafe Press. Nor do we feel as if the place we're working at (I mean showing up at and getting paid something every couple of weeks) is "ours." Though maybe we should to a bit of an extent.
But as for us, we do have a business. It's called (enter your name here) . That businiess is far more important than say Nike, or KFC or Bob's Hair Restoration Salon. (at least it should be to us).
In our business, we have one(1) employee, manager, president, secretary, security guard, custodian, committee chair, HR professional, chef, and dog walker. (Feel free to add your own collection of worker bees you wish for your business). That's us, I mean me, I mean you... ummm, you know what I'm saying.
In this business called (enter your name here) , we are responsible for everything. This includes..
- Marketing our services to companies which fit our make-up (Job/Career)
- Purchasing materials and products to keep the business operational (food, clothes, shelter)
- Merging our personality and values to other people (friends)
- Giving of ourselves in service to those in need (community)
- Helping as needs arise to help those close to us (family)
Next, The E
While I don't want to call this the most wishy-washy portion of the whole of Biz-e-Life, it is the one voted most likely to be changed from time to time to fit a given need.When creating Biz-e-Life, the "e" was originally for electronic. At the time, it was to connect electronic communications as a way of connecting the biz and the life components. But as time has gone by (about 2 weeks of off and on study of the "e"), and with Larry's post last week, the "e" also involves effort as well as electronic communications. Actually, maybe the "e" IS Effort.
In our business called (enter your name here) , it takes effort to have this venture of ours to not only get by, but to succeed, thrive, become greater than when we began it. And yes, it can include plenty of Electronic Communications in addition to actually entertaining the elequent euphemisms of every eggheaded everything ever enunciated into ether.
Putting it a bit less rambling, it also means getting out of the basement and into the real world with real people doing real things with real results. Really!
Finally, Life
This is probably the basis of anything this business of ours, you remember (enter your name here) , is all about. Think of this as the business plan, the standards and practices section, the guidelines of all we do and are about, and yes, I'll say it this once, our mission statement.
I want to say it's simple, but it takes time. What might make this part tough, is because it's about us as individuals. Things we may not have really thought about much deeper than a passing thought while standing in line at the supermarket reading about Britney Spears, Angelina's 2 kids (or not having 2 kid yet) and the whole alien invasion in a desert somewhere in Arizona.
We'll start slow. Begin thinking about....
- What do I want to accomplish?
- What has my life lead up to this moment?
- Where am I now?
- What do I have to work with?
- What can I improve upon to make it happen?
- When will I get started? (You better say today for this one)
Over time, we'll work on these with you as well as probably a few hundred others along the way.
Oh, one more thing. In the end, it is up to you. (or as I usually write back and forth, it's up to each of us). No one has the answers to all of the individual questions asked by individuals about a given individual. It's up to the indivudial to uncover those answers individually. But there is plenty of help.
We'll talk again soon.
David
http://www.djstoddard.net/
http://www.insearchofourselves.com/
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