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Dan-O
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:12 am    Post subject: How do you want to be paid? Reply with quote

12 years ago, Bob Souer suggested I subscribe to the Monday Morning Memo by Roy H. Williams. Most of the posts are about advertising and storytelling. (which seems right up our alley, correct?) Other posts can be beautifully crafted motivational thoughts to ponder. Today's for instance:

http://www.mondaymorningmemo.com/newsletters/how-do-you-want-to-be-paid/

Listen, my young apprentice, and I will release you from your chains.
Every door of opportunity begins as a window in the mind.

Look through that window of imagination and glimpse a world that could be, should be, ought to be someday. Keep looking… and watch it grow into a door of Opportunity through which you can pass into an entirely different future.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Opportunity never knocks. It appears, flickering, like faulty neon at a nondescript fork in the road.

Opportunity never knocks. It whispers, a tickle in your distracted mind.1

Yes, opportunity begins as a window in the mind through which we glimpse possible futures.

And then one day we leap through that window.
“What is sure, predictable, inevitable – the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?”

“That we shall die.”

“Yes, there’s really only one question that can be answered, and we already know the answer… The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” 2

There is a space between yesterday and tomorrow. Do you know the place I mean?
It’s called Life.
And you’ve got to make a living if you’re going to have a life.

How do you want to be paid?
Do you want to be paid for your time,
or do you want you be paid for your knowledge?

Listen, my young apprentice, to what an old man knows.
There is no future in being paid by the hour.
You must escape from that financial prison.

Become good at something.
Become astoundingly good.
Do you see a person who is skilled in their work?
That person will stand before kings. 3

Do you wait tables?
Become the server whose tables spend twice as much money as the other tables. Restaurants around the world will hire you to teach their servers how to do the same. But don’t let those restaurant owners pay you for your time. Insist that you be paid for the difference you made.

Do you stack bricks?
Stack them in a way that no one has ever seen bricks stacked before. You have sizes, shapes, and colors. Stack them so they can’t be ignored! But don’t let your customers pay you for your time. Be paid for the difference you made.

Listen, my young apprentice, to what an old man knows.
Craftsmen are paid for the quality of their work.
But craftsmen are paid by the hour.
An artist is paid for the impact of their art.
Artists are paid for the difference they made.

The only thing that separates a craft from an art
is how you agree to be paid.

Roy H. Williams
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Tre M.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This stuck to me like a hot plate of grits...
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:52 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Tre M. wrote:
This stuck to me like a hot plate of grits...


Excuse my ignorance, but is that good or bad ?

Had grits once. They didn’t make much of an impression.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And...THAT'S getting printed out and nailed to the booth wall.
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Tre M.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:01 am    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

FinMac wrote:
Tre M. wrote:
This stuck to me like a hot plate of grits...


Excuse my ignorance, but is that good or bad ?

Had grits once. They didn’t make much of an impression.


It's a term indigenous of us folks raised in the Southern parts of the US.
Some people make grits that are very soupy, while some make them with a texture similar to say, thick oatmeal or porridge. To say its "sticks" means to coat your stomach with joyous intent. This message stuck to my soul in the same manner.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:26 am    Post subject: Thanks Tre! Reply with quote

Thanks for the interpretation, sounds good Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love them grits thick and rich, with a little butter and pepper, but I gotta make my own. They just don't serve them in restaurants out West, unless they load 'em up with shredded cheddar and Worcestershire sauce.... then it's a gourmet dish.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cooking grits
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How do *I* want to be paid? In as timely a fashion as that in which I fulfill my clients' needs.

But, that's another thread.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By PayPal. No "check is in the mail" excuses.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just want to be paid on time.
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Tre M.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bruce wrote:
I love them grits thick and rich, with a little butter and pepper, but I gotta make my own. They just don't serve them in restaurants out West, unless they load 'em up with shredded cheddar and Worcestershire sauce.... then it's a gourmet dish.


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You lost me at Worcestershire sauce....lol
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is why I love this board: the deep, life changing discussions.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

and I definitely heard Banjos!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I read this and was saying "wow"* before I noticed who posted it. And I'm not surprised. It's very Dan.

*I did not actually say "wow," but you know what I mean. I felt it, man, I really felt it.
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