From the trenches of Professional Services in a down economy 1

April 7th, 2009

Awareness is everything.

It’s Tuesday the 7th of April. I realized that I enjoy work when I’m doing the work that I enjoy.

I know a big duh but I’m a human being and humans often do not see what’s right in front of them. The work I enjoy is teaching, writing and moving the discipline of Software Development Leadership forward. And a lot of the time- ok, most of the time, I’m not doing that. I’m doing the things that make me money.

Today was shaping out to be one of those days… you know, one of those days where you think to yourself, ‘What the hell I am I doing with my life? Why am I in this business? This sucks…’ But then I had a great conversation with an Information Marketer who’s going to help get my Info Biz off the ground. I went into that meeting beaten down and discouraged from interacting with… well, challenging situations.

But during this meeting with the Information Marketer, I came alive and thought to myself WOW, I actually am happy and feel alive when… I’M DOING THE THINGS THAT I LIKE TO DO!! (duh).

For me at least, these realizations are BIG. Not necessarily big in terms of me knowing that I’m happy when I’m doing the things that make me happy but me actually experiencing it.

And not only experiencing it but actually causing it to happen. I understood that I actually dragged myself into a meeting that I could have easily canceled or re-scheduled because ‘I wasn’t feeling well’ or made some other excuse. But I didn’t.

“I” (you know that other “I” that’s in you… well, that’s another conversation) knew that I had to go do something that was going to make me happy. And the “me” inside me reluctantly went along.

And look what happened! I’m back writing and feeling good. Such a duh.

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