How many hours a day are YOU unconscious?.

Today was one of those days at work.... Ha, how many times have we said that...however this day which is familiar to me, may not be familiar to others...and i hope to change that

Maybe you don't know what this is like because you work for a Corporation w/ hundreds/thousands/millions of employees. maybe you just dont care enough about what you do to really ever end up in this position. Or maybe you only care part time, for your full time job...But i do not...and today my CEO approached me with an idea. ............Now let me pause and say that, as the head of Sales, i often meet with the CEO to discuss Sales and our process and our productivity etc. so this was not the neat part...for that...lets return to the scheduled program already in progress...........An idea that could change the entire industry of Personal/Professional Development. He didnt tell me how we could do, when we could do it, or where we could do it, he only told me that it could be done, and it could take this company to the top of the industry within 10 years. (Yes this is the same industry that boasts names like Zig Ziggler, T. Harv Ecker, and the infamous Anthony Robbins). He asked me what i thought about the idea. The millionaire CEO of this million dollar company asked me...if we could pull it off. Now...like i said, i talk to him often....but rarely in this manor. I was given the opportunity to assist in changing the face of a million dollar company, simply because my CEO believed that my best interests, were not in the number of zeros at the end of my pay check, rather the number of zeros at the end of the # of lives we change with our company.

The idea?...well you will have to wait and see...but the moral of the story...

is to simply Stop! Seriously look at what you do for a living. Over 60% of our live's are spent either sleeping or working.

Sleeping is simple, in that you do it in one manor, you have to do it to survive, there is little choice involved, and once its over you can get on with your life.

But do you feel the same about work...?

You already spend 6-8 hours a day unconscious under your comforter but Do you also spend 8 hrs a day, doing something that is simple, monotonous, simply because you have to...at work?

if thats the case then basically.....deductive reasoning would say that you are unconscious for 16 hours a day.

I told you the story above about me and my CEO not for the subject matter, rather, the underlining message.

I LOVE WHAT I DO. and because of that...the only part of my day when i am not having a blast....is when i'm in Dream land.

I'm only unconscious....when i'm unconscious. I get 8 extra hours of reality, while you are sleeping.dreaming.waiting for the weekend.

I dont want to sit here and pretend that i can teach you how to fall in love with your job....because there are about 1 billion different jobs out there, most of which i have never done.

But here are 2 tips.

Where ever you work, and whom ever you work for, cannot be a mystery. So many people have jobs that are actually a mystery. For instance if you work in sales at Lowe's (using my brother as an example because i know he's done this...and recently got promoted because of it) you need to understand that you are the most important person in that entire Global Powerhouse of a company. Because after all...NOTHING HAPPENS TILL YOU SELL! AND NOTHING SELLS TILL YOU HAVE SALESPEOPLE! That's step one, understanding your value as an employee and how it effects the company you work for.

Equally important is to align your morals and believes with that of the Company/CEO you work with/for. There are people working in this economy that cannot name their CEO let alone understand his vision for the company. Employees know the code of conduct, but who wrote it, why it was written, what it all really means...is a mystery. The CEO is nothing more than an occasional conference call or Video chat, and is never really a reality. I call this the "Wizard of Oz Effect". Those companies do that for a reason. Reality = Accountability...Presence = Accountability... When the person with the most power is in the clouds, its easier for them to treat you like garbage, because you are a number. When you gain a presences in their life, that is when your job changes.

So before you submit the Application. Make sure, at some point you can speak to the guy or gal who makes the decisions and truly understand why they do what they do and why your job, even exists..When you can align yourself with the Decision Maker, you can work more effectively, climb the corporate ladder and be a part of the decisions one day.

But this cannot be faked. You cannot ACT like you agree with the company's vision in order to get a bigger pay check. The funny thing about this is, when money is your motivator, you will not perform at your top level once you are financially satisfied. That makes sense right? What else do you have to work for? But if you are motivated by your work, by what you're accomplishing, by who your effecting, by what your creating, by what you are doing...not only does the money come, w.o you focusing on it, but you stop WORKING and you start LIVING. We live to chase a dream and create our own interpretation of a good life. And you can do that with your job.

The saying goes that you spend the first 8 hrs a day chasing your boss's dream, the second 8 hrs of your day chasing your dream. and the rest...dreaming. Although i agree that dreams (Both conscious and unconscious) are vital to our existence...what if we could align our dreams with our employer's dream...and spend 16 hours a day chasing our dreams?

Can Your work become a part of your journey rather than a deterrent?

I Live to help people. I live to effect lives for the better. My goal...
to touch 1 million lives.
to donate 1 million dollars to charity.
to help develop 1 million novel ideas in people around me.
to write 1 million pages worth of MY thoughts.
to create 1 Millionaire.
to live 1 million years, and if i cannot, to learn as if i will.

1 million is my number, and guess what...my job will get me there. I love what i do.

Do you?

my.thoughts.exactly