199: Dividing lines

How much is your furniture worth?
I’m about to move countries. So there’s furniture for sale. How much is it worth?
Worth is relative. It’s not about the item on offer. It’s about the relationship, the focus, and the commitment to those in your care.

The concern was this: “If I put the signposts up now, I might start drowning in punters before I’m ready.”
So the signposts weren’t set up until much later, after many yard-salers were done with their search.
We do this in our businesses all the time.

When you write a blog post and publish it, it becomes live for the whole world to see.
Surely, then, people who have the problem you’re presenting will read your post and move forward with your call to action, right?
However, the problem is this: “People” aren’t reading it.

Automation and delegation are important for meaningful work’s pursuit to touch more lives of those it can help transform. But only if it remains meaningful work, and the lives it touches are still experience just (if not more) transformation as a result.

Is the goal to get the cargo where it needs to go – to accomplish the mission you set out to achieve – or is the goal to have comfy seats in the sky?
Remember why you’re making the trip. It’ll help ensure you get there, and in one piece.

Why are they talking to you? Because you might be able to help them solve a problem.
Why are you talking to them? Because you might be able to help them solve a problem.
If they’re not interested, you’ve not connected with the problem, or that it can be solved.