Your business facet is one of the four most important facets of your life. While your business is very important (it’s what you do in order to pay for what you want to do), it is not more important than your personal relationships.
What do I mean by this?
If you are like most people, when someone asks you, “What do you do?” you probably reply with some title or short description of your economic function in life. “I’m a butcher,” or “I’m a baker,” or a candlestick maker. Or a doctor, or lawyer, or priest, or sales rep, or one of the other thousands of jobs that people do to make money each day. But is that really what you do all day? And, more importantly, is it what you want to do? And still more importantly than that, is it what you want to be remembered for doing?
As the saying goes, nobody wants their epitaph to read, “Devoted employee.” If the sum and substance of what you do in life is limited to how you make money, then you absolutely must expand your perception of what you do.
You are no more merely a whatever-you-do-for-a-living than I am merely a personal, business, and legal integrator, more commonly known as a lawyer. Thinking of your self in the limited terms of what you do to make money is one of the things that keeps you drudgingly owned by your life instead of excitingly enjoying your lifeownership.
People often raise an eyebrow when I respond to “what do you do?” with “I’ve been a devoted son for my entire life, a faithful husband since ‘79, and a practically perfect parent of six kids since ‘84, and to pay for all that, I help people as a personal, business, and legal integrator, which is more commonly referred to as being a lawyer.” Nonetheless, it is my most accurate Great! person’s answer to the question.
We will talk much more about balancing your Business Facet against your Personal Facet category both here and there of the Great! All the time! blog. In the meantime, you GOTTABGATT! so go out there today and be Great! All the time!
If you like this stuff, share it with your friends and family. Like me on Facebook, Tweet your Twitter followers to clue them in, Pin it. Whichever way you share, share it. I would be very grateful.