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You’ve got to be kidding right? Why would anyone want to read about this? I mean, last month alone, Pat Flynn made almost $120,000 so who cares about a measly $1,500? Most people think that ‘www’ stand for World Wide Web, but I have a special URL where it stand for World’s Worst Website. Here’s the start of my story.
I recently heard a great definition of vision from Mark Conklin, Sr. Manager of Leadership Development at Chick-Fil-A: “Vision is a preferred picture of the future that creates passion for you.” We would all likely agree that organizations (teams, business, community, church and yes, even families!) perform more effectively with a clear, common vision. In fact, the lack of vision creates division in you organization. If you aren’t providing a clear vision, people will tend to pursue their own personal agenda, often in conflict organizational goals.
Serious students of swimming know that the biggest gains in the pool come not from the equipment you train with but from stroke mechanics. I can recall dozens of times where I was working out in the pool and pushing myself hard, only to see other swimmers who didn’t “appear” to be in as good of shape as I, glide past me lap after lap with seemingly effortless ease.
For the creative professional, whether the entrepreneur, designer, craftsman or artist, working is all about making. When we go to work, we are going to make something useful, powerful, provoking, beautiful. Making and working… we’re morking.
Customer service reps, accountants and doctors don’t mork. They just work. And we need them working. Things don’t get serviced, paid or healed without them.
But it’s the morkers that are additive and create value. Making something from nothing. Morking turns an idea into a transmission, a thought into a painting or a hypothesis into a vaccination.
Solving the customer’s latest problem certainly pays a wage. But creating the customer’s new paradigm changes the world.