John Steinbeck wrote the phrase “indiscipline of overwork.” Pushing yourself past your limits, using brute force, he said, was “the falsest of economies.”
I felt that.
Last day of work before winter break.
This paper cutter in the staff room made me smile.
Missing from your job description
If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted:
–Seth Godin
If you're working in an office, here are some of the checklist items that might have been omitted:
- Add energy to every conversation
- Ask why
- Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them
- Treat customers better than they expect
- Offer to help co-workers before they ask
- Feed the plants
- Leave things more organized than you found them
- Invent a moment of silliness
- Highlight good work from your peers
- Find other great employees to join the team
- Cut costs
- Help invent a new product or service that people really want
- Get smarter at your job through training or books
- Encourage curiosity
- Surface and highlight difficult decisions
- Figure out what didn't work
- Organize the bookshelf
- Start a club
- Tell a joke at no one's expense
- Smile a lot
–Seth Godin
Back to work. Back to school. Back to the grind. Back on my bullshit.
Annual “get together” for work this afternoon. Last year, it was sunny and 90. Today, rainy and 60. Such is May weather. Such is the shitshow of working for a living.