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Originally Posted by jayeff
Regarding this lesson, I believe you need to be a certain kind of personality (which very few are) to follow this particular course. Rather, I have learned that if you want to do things with the sincerity and enthusiasm most likely to make them work for you, and be able to do them long-term, you have to be yourself and do things you enjoy. There will be times when you need some discipline and willpower not to go lie on the beach or whatever, but that is doable. For most, keeping themselves constantly on a leash usually does not have a good outcome.
I think that the hardest lesson of all is not to take life's lessons lightly. Most of us, whether in our private lives or in business, know what we should be doing. We often claim to ourselves and to others that we are doing those things. Yet in reality, we treat most motivational concepts as little more than wallpaper: they play little real part in our lives at all.
That doesn't only apply to individuals, but to companies too. In Tom Peter's book "In Search of Excellence", he differentiates between the excellent companies and the rest largely by highlighting those which live and breathe their slogans, and those which regard slogans as nothing more than a marketing tool.
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Wow, I hadn't even realized anyone responded to this thread, I saw it drop like a rock and got too busy to check up on it.
This is a great post here man.
I think I may have come across wrongly in the past, you're a smart cookie and not a typical GFYer, and normally I would have notated the difference but I have been only half-paying attention recently to GFY. Sometimes text is not the right medium to communicate certain things (as we all know). Sometimes it conveys things that aren't there, or does the opposite. I'm sorry for that.
In any case - I wanted to point something out in your post here, you say:
"Rather, I have learned that if you want to do things with the sincerity and enthusiasm most likely to make them work for you, and be able to do them long-term, you have to be yourself and do things you enjoy."
This doesn't solve the problem of human indulgence. I think a lot of people will say 'being themselves and doing things they enjoy" are in and of themselves: life's little indulgences that are taken overboard. And without the discipline and willpower referred to above can become a problem.
So it kind of becomes a catch22...