tendance
The w-ork
if you don’t love your work you’re never gonna
be great at it if you can get your wor-k life to
be where you enjoy half of it that and is amazing
because very few people ever achieve that
because the truth is everything comes
with overhead that’s reality everything
comes with pieces that you don’t like
every job comes with pieces you don’t
like and we need to say that’s just how
that’s part of it you have to figure out
how to set up your life in such a way
that you can minimize the things and I
find people don’t dislike hard work what
people dislike and what is being out of
control like they can’t control their
life they can’t control their
environment this happens to me when I
get over scheduled
I hate being over scheduled I want some
time to be able to think and free myself
we all have the same amount and of time in
the world nobody has more time than
anybody else and when you become a very
successful person one of the things you
start to get over scheduled if you don’t
love your work you’re never gonna be
great at it
the gifted
the other thing I would suggest to any
young person even before they start
their career is to really think about
their choices because I find young
people and I when I was young I had I
made this mistake too
you can get very fixed on your gifts so
everybody has gifts you know you you
have gifts and you have things that you
didn’t get gifted maybe you’re extremely
beautiful maybe you’re extremely good at
mathematics maybe you there are a lot of
things that you can be given but those
things can confuse you because they’re
not the things that construct your life
it’s your choices that construct your
life not your guests you can celebrate
your gifts be proud of them be happy of
them actually don’t be proud of them
beep
and be celebratory of them but you can’t
be proud because they’re gifts they were
given to you you didn’t earn them you
can only be proud of the things you earn
and so as I got older I started to
realize I wasn’t proud of my gifts I was
always good at school school is always
easy for me and I was always proud that
I was a great student I got AIDS and all
my classes I was good at math all of
that and I thought I thought that’s who
choose a life
I was but it’s not true those are the
things that are gifts what was hard for
me is deciding to work hard deciding to
use my gifts in certain ways to
challenge myself to do things that I
didn’t think I could do to put myself in
uncomfortable situations you can choose
a life of ease, comfort or you can
choose a life of service and adventure
which one of those when you’re 90 years
old are you going to be more proud of
tomorrow in a very real sense your life
the life you author from scratch on your
own begins how will you use your gifts
what choices will you make well inertia
be your guide or will you follow your
passions will you follow Dogma or will
you be original
will you choose a life of ease and or a life
of service an adventure will you wilt
under criticism or will you follow your
convictions will you Bluff it out when
you’re wrong or will you apologize will
you guard your heart against rejection
or react when you fall in love will you
play it safe and or will you be a little bit
swashbuckling when it’s tough will you
give up or will you be relentless will
you be a cynic and or will you be a builder
will you be clever at the expense of
others or will you be kind tomorrow and
in a quiet moment of reflection
narrating for only yourself the most
personal version of your life story the
telling that will be most compact and
meaningful will be the series of choices
you have made and in the end we are our
choices build yourself a great story work
