what motivates you?
when times are financially tough, as they’ve been for the past couple of years, your motives for starting a business, growing a business, or working for someone else’s company become increasingly apparent. if your motives for any of the above is to make tons of cash, go on sweet vacations, have a gold-plated ipad, or become famous, you’ll find yourself becoming frustrated and bitter (which, ironically, leads to making poor business decisions) when you’re not accomplishing those goals. however, if your overall purpose is to improve a group of people’s existence, positively affect the environment, or generally make the world a better place, then you’ll only become more passionate, sincere, and driven because all of a sudden, when you or your business is making less money, it’s not just effecting you, it’s negatively effecting an entire group of people or the planet.
a while ago, we decided to use our resources to help take down modern day slave trading by partnering with International Justice Mission. so when business is slow and our cash flow decreases, we don’t get upset because we’ve got to cancel a weekend vacation in tahiti, we work harder knowing that there is a group of people scattered all around the world that continues to suffer. when our business does well, we work harder knowing that we’re making a larger positive impact. our success is directly tied to their success.
detaching personal wealth and ego from your work can be the best thing for your career and/or business. try it. decide to make positive change and see what happens. the world will thank you for it.
