Do the right thing no matter what!

November 25, 2007 | 2 Comments

Ethics is a matter of black and white - not grey.  It’s either right or wrong, good or bad, hello or goodbye, you are either in the way or on the way.  Easy to say but hard to figure out?  Not really.  How do you know whether something is the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do?  If you have to ask, it’s the wrong thing.  You always know the right thing, you only have to ask the question when it is the wrong thing.  So do the right thing even when it is unpopular or might cost you money or be embarrassing.  In the long run, consistently doing the right thing will pay off every time, without exception.  Do the right thing with your kids, your spouse, your family, your boss, your employees, your customers and the stranger in the car next to you or the one you pass on the street and do the right thing with your taxes too!  Never compromise your future success by short-changing your present by doing less than the right thing in every circumstance.

Posted by Larry Winget | Filed Under Money & Personal Dev 

You don’t have to love your job…….but it helps!

November 7, 2007 | 6 Comments

Too much has been said about loving your job. Even I used to fall into this trap. You don’t have to love your job to be good at it – but it helps. I don’t love what I do for a living. Oh wait, you think speaking and writing is what I do? It isn’t. I only spend about 100 hours a year on stage giving speeches. That’s two weeks work if you put it all together - barely enough to count. That stage time is a part the part of my business that I love and it is the payoff for what I really do for a living. I travel for a living. I pack my crap, go the airport, put up with the security stupidity, and the abuse of the don’t-give-a-damn flight attendants, only to get there and wait an hour for my bag that statistics say has probably been pilfered, then get in a cab that smells like crap driven by a guy who can’t speak English and drives out of the way to pad his bill, then check into a hotel where they can’t find my reservation so I can order up some room service that will be late and cold and wrong. Then I go on stage, love my hour I’m up there and start over again. That is the reality of what I do for a living. In my spare time, I write a book or two and shoot a television show. I don’t love what I do most of the time. I put up with it because I love those hundred hours. And I’m not complaining – the hundred hours is worth the trouble or I wouldn’t do it.

The good news is that none of us are paid to love our jobs. You aren’t. You never got a check notated in the notes section, “Because he loves his job.” You got your check because you did your job, not because you loved your job. If you love your job, that is a bonus.

Posted by Larry Winget | Filed Under Money & Personal Dev