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If there’s one instrument that’s universally mocked and ridiculed it has to be the accordion. No other instrument (with the exception, perhaps, of the bagpipe) comes close.
Yet in this video we see that the accordion can sound beautiful when handled by a master.
This brings me to something I hear a lot of people say – “I don’t like my job, I want a new one.” What does this have anything to do with an accordion? Well, just like ...
Psychology. It influences our thoughts, our actions, and the world around us. None of us can escape it. And we’re not talking about Freud here.
A great myth in life is that your work can make you happy. It can’t. The only way work brings meaning to your life is if you bring meaning to your work.
Whether we work from home, in an office, or in the field, we spend more time working than any other activity. Maybe it’s time we looked into what that means.
If you’re on the internet you’ve had negative comments. It’s part of the internet culture, for better or worse. We looked at responding to negative comments in a previous post. But are there benefits to negative comments? Could your brand be improved by receiving negative comments?
Surprisingly yes.
Negative comments give you two benefits.
1. Negative comments let you address legitimate problems. Let’s face it we aren’t perfect. We make mistakes. Release defective products. And don’t always have the best customer service. If you bring your meaning to your work, then you care about quality and service. Wouldn’t you rather address the problem ...
I bought an android phone a few months ago. Actually it was the Nexus One from Google. I bought it because I love technology. And although I’m rarely an early adopter, I desperately needed a new phone. In a world where business and life merge everywhere, I needed something more than my outdated blackberry. So I took the plunge and went with the Nexus One.
For most of my life I’ve loved technology. I remember walking to elementary school during the summer with my Dad to play Oregon Trail on an Apple IIgs. I remember fondly hacking my old x386 Windows ...
We’re getting a lot of new readers these days, so I just wanted to take a moment to explain what this site is all about. The whole point of this site is captured in its name: Meaning to Work.
Most of us spend our lives searching for how to make our lives more meaningful. We hop from job to job hoping that the next one will make our lives more meaningful. But the truth is, no job brings meaning to our work.
A friend of mine went to work for a non-profit. He had worked as a marketer at a big marketing ...
I admit it. I have a weakness. No matter what I do I can’t seem to shake. And it’s this: I love to learn.
There I said it. Now I can enroll in Learner’s Anonymous.
Why is this a problem? Because learning isn’t the same as doing. And it’s in the doing that greatness happens. Go ahead and pick anything you want. A thought, a belief, an opinion. But I can tell you it didn’t matter until someone did something about it. You might have a great idea for a new TV product, but it won’t matter until you do it. Do ...
We’ve all heard the advice that practice makes perfect. But how many of us actually do that? Practice I mean. I’d be willing to bet that very few of us work hard at what we love. In a previous post I mentioned that we are all too often held in the grasp of a no growth mentality. That it’s not change we fear, but failure.
Practice is part of that.
Many of us don’t practice because we figure “why bother?” That type of mentality says, it’s ...
