It’s Monday! 90% of your day will be dominated by 2% of coworker’s asking, “How was your weekend? What’s your day look like? Can you help me?”
Where on the turntable of life did the vinyl record get scratched or broken?
High school fails to teach three very important expectations: In the blink of an eye you’ll be 50. Having children is legalized bank robbery and no matter what you put into your job it never turns out to be what they introduced during the interview process.
When you set an apple outside under a hot Carolina sun, what happens?
It becomes you! Dreams dried. A once beautiful smile sunk into its lost soul. The single stem that once fed vital juices into a tiny springtime blossom dropped like a faded memory.
What gives? Wait…you do! Over and over again.
When will something or someone give back to you? The finger pointing is at you! Reality being a big ole hairy bite; if receiving has become your sink hole…never expect the dirt from other mountains to fill what you’ve given permission to create.
You can’t give in the name of expecting a return. When you give you relinquish. The receiver of what you give holds every right to treat the gift good, great or poorly without you expecting to say stop or give me something back. It’s wrong for you to say, “What are you willing to do?”
In 1991 Andrew Ashwood point blank asked me, “Are you a Broadcaster or a radio DJ”
Sticking my chest out there like a well oiled extremely over determined rooster in heat I replied, “Broadcaster!”
“Good! I can only pay you for 28 hours a week but I need you for 60.”
Morally and physically illegal but you know as well as I do…peer pressure and the fear of unemployment keeps you from whistle blowing.
In 1991 I knowingly gave my life away never realizing the Great Recession of 08 and 2011 would have the same impact on your life. Every mall store, hardware outlet, bank, hospital, restaurant and gas station I visit features not one but endless amounts of bad apples and there’s nothing the giver can do about where they’ve placed their current step.
Or so you’ve been trained…
Time to go back to school! Mentally not physically. Meyouhealth.com invites you to recall three of your favorite high school subjects then asks you to write down why.
Openly I share…mine were Creative Writing, Chorus and Current Events or any type of history…especially the history of religious studies; which we got away with in the latter part of the 70’s.
According to meyouhealth.com what we enjoy and appreciate says a great deal about us. Retouching a high school fun study teaches our present self that learning isn’t a chore. Even at 49 I can wave goodbye to radio and become a Montana State History teacher or a religious mentor that puts focus on the present using current decisions by others to help shape a more positive path for newer dreams to blossom in places looked upon as being safer.
By breaking away from assumption that learning or work is a pain in the roots, it allows you to find better reasons to shatter negative stereotypes connected to the empty answers arriving everyday you ask questions.
Artist Way author Julia Cameron teachers her readers to quickly page through a magazine and pull out only the photos that instantly enlighten you. Without thought quickly paste them to a giant sheet of white paper. Stand back and take a better view of your inner life.
Radio legend Wolfman Jack explains in his autobiography that the majority of those performing on car speakers aren’t doing it because they’ve got a burning desire to report news, weather forecasts and to sell the artist and title. When you take a deeper look into the channels that flood your favorite radio station the single reason why most decide to give broadcasting a shot is because the stage to do your thing is easier to locate than a concert hall or local bar. You hear words from wordy word radio disc jockeys…those sharing the conversation see it as writing lyrics; which is why it hurts so bad when someone says you suck! Art isn’t meant to suck…it’s your view of what is or isn’t and those passing by see it or don’t.
Your job is no different.
There are three rules to follow in today’s business world; find success, hire employees that sacrifice. When in doubt revert back to number one find success by locating someone new to do the job.
Three high school subjects then tell me why you liked them. This is America…you can be anything you want at anytime of the day or night. For you to be that person you’ve got to stop trading your happiness for other people’s big boats, thick steaks bathed in wines you can’t pronounce.
I will always believe in you first…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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