Posted by Luke in I recently had the pleasure of buying a can of Dr. Pepper from a local man in a shopping centre. Considering we don’t have Dr. Pepper here in Brisbane the price was considerably more expensive that you might think… but I didn’t mind paying it. Why? Every time I go into the store the man greets me with a smile and always has something great to say. You can just tell he absolutely loves what he does. How can I tell that he does? Because his heart is in what he is doing.
The opposite of what I am saying
Yesterday I bought my very first table at a local furniture store. The man who runs the store was sitting in a recliner with his eyes closed and didn’t even acknowledge us as we walked in the store. Probably didn’t help that I said, ‘Wow, they are dead on a Saturday,’ as we walked in. Whoops! The table we had picked out of the catalogue was ordered and the man hardly moved. Now I am not one to makejudgments on the spot but I would say he was not happy with his job and his heart was somewhere else.
Where is your heart?
My heart is in creative, idea generating things. I like to make new things out of old combinations and build things. Now, I don’t know which end of the hammer to pick up but in my heart this is how I am. The point of this post to ask … is your heart in what you do? Check yourself. Ask yourself… do I want to do this for the right reasons or the wrong reasons? Look at the mirror and ask yourself what’s the deal?
How do you know your heart is not in it
When you go to work do you feel the ‘ugh’ feeling? What do I mean? A while ago a colleague of mine walked up to the office he was in and he had recently quit. I said to him, ‘Why?’. He said to me, ‘Every time I walked up the stairs to come to my office I would get depressed.’ I instantly saw his point.
Now I have to caution you here. Sometimes you have to build something else in order to move forward before you make the shift. But, don’t lie to yourself. Tell the truth. If you know you aren’t putting your heart into it… find out what you should be and go for it. That however is another story for another post.
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