Running an ensemble-theatre, working for Google, being a life coach -- it's all the same thing: catalyzing people and teams toward Greatness. The instrument I like to play, and play with, is a sentient being consisting of a wide-open, hot-linked, world-class creative team. It took me 47 years to learn how to create and play with such a creature.
Wild courageous humans, my instrument of choice.
Yesterday I did an all-day personal retreat on "What do I want?" It was free-form, wide-ranging, looking at the far future as well as now. When I sat down today to finish my Ideal Google Job, I took my "What do I want?" results, marinated in the Google website for a couple hours, and then figured out where the two mesh.
My ideal job at Google is creating and running a Fractal Greatness Lab -- seeding Greatness at every fractal level: personal, team, product, vision.
The hardest part was getting the name right.
I can't believe I thought up such a fun job. That I already know how to do. That moves forward on all my paths at once. The goal I had set for myself was, "A fun, lucrative, formidable, surprising job."
It's not the Google job that makes me feel this way. It's acting in integrity with my Gift.
Let's see if I can say this deeper.
when it is your time
to bloom, let every fat lush
petal open YES
laughing as you break
the surface, water streaming
down -- benediction
when you find the pair
of shoes that's yours, put them on --
brown leather, worn gold
the dalai lama
says a vow is an intention,
asymptotic
god knows your secret
name and one day so do you --
it's your own horse face
1 comment:
when you read a great book, hear a great song, or do something the best you can, and know it; that is the best feeling I have ever had. To read a great book is to feel the characters, to not need the description, or even all the dialouge, to think you know whats coming, but not really. To hear a great song, to feel it in your bones, in your heart, to want to sing it, dance it, and know it; to dance it by staying perfectly still and letting it wash over you. To do something wonderfully, to know in your heart that it was good, to feel love for all humanity because of it.
To live a good life, to love and to know, that is pure joy.
-T : )
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