7 Minutes In The Morning

Why do you work? Can you clearly articulate the end-state you are striving to achieve? It's a simple enough question but one that will probably stump you. I've asked this question to hundreds, maybe thousands of people and the most common answers they have given fall into one of two categories: 1) to pay bills, or 2) um, because I'm supposed to. It is exactly this lack of goals, absence of vision, that lead over 70% of employees to be mentally and emotionally disengaged AT WORK! They just don't care. Among business owners it's slightly better...but not much. In a recent Reddit thread the question was posed, "Why did you start your business?" and the majority of answers centered around what the job allowed them to escape, not what it was providing for them. So whether you are an employee or a business owner, it's really easy to get trapped in the "it's what I'm supposed to do" way of thinking. That's not intentional thinking and will NOT produce the results you're looking for! The reality is, if you don't have