Bread and Jam
Posted on | December 28, 2009 | No Comments
The bread and butter of life doesn’t have to be dull. What you do to earn a living can go from hum-drum to enlivening quite quickly in fact. I’m not talking about running away to join the circus or dumping all the responsibilities that you have accumulated; I’m talking about turning your bread and butter into bread and jam.
The butter in this case, is the way you always do things. You grab the butter and you spread it on. It’s not complete crap; it’s your BUTTER for god’s sake, but it IS the usual. Whatever is ordinary in your world. So, I’m challenging you to go to work as you normally do, to start doing your tasks as you normally do. But then, when you open your mental refrigerator and reach for that butter… that tool or approach that you normally use… just stop. Reach a bit farther in. Grope around.There’s jam in there. Something red and juicy. Something that you bottled up long ago. Preserves from another sunnier season: old core values that you haven’t really been honouring, flavour that really tastes like what you believe in, a funkier-monkier style than you usually let out of the jar. The jam is your essence, what makes you – You! The thing that all of us admire in other people – confidence, enthusiasm, joy.
These things can creep back into your life if you start making these little baby choices. Jam instead of butter. Chances are your clients will perk right up and smile at your pizzazz. Who knows, they may even respond in kind. The main point though isn’t to look cool or impress others, it’s to be happier on a day to day basis. To feel more alive. Life’s too short to waste your time doing things in the same old deadening way. Showing a bit of your true self doesn’t have to be scary. It can be delightful delicious and in fact, nourishing.
Tags: good business touches people > happy work life > injecting inspiration into your life > letting your talents show
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