050 | Ken Blanchard: “We Want to Take Our Jobs Seriously But Ourselves Lightly.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Quote of The Day Show, author and speaker Ken Blanchard encourages you to lighten up and have a good time!
This clip comes from Ken's audio program Personal Excellence available on Audible.
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| 0:00.0 | We want to take our job seriously, but ourselves lightly. |
| 0:05.0 | And that is the quote of the day. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm your host Sean Croxson of Sean Croxson.com. |
| 0:36.0 | Today's featured speaker is Ken Blanchard. |
| 0:39.0 | And Ken is talking about something really important. |
| 0:42.0 | He's talking about the fact that we take our jobs so seriously, |
| 0:46.0 | which is actually a good thing. |
| 0:47.0 | But we allow that seriousness to bleed into all other aspects of our lives. |
| 0:52.0 | We forget to have fun. |
| 0:54.0 | We become our jobs. |
| 0:55.0 | We take that seriousness home with ourselves every day. |
| 0:59.0 | And we've forgotten how to find that child within. |
| 1:02.0 | We've forgotten how to laugh. |
| 1:04.0 | We just take life too seriously. |
| 1:06.0 | We want to take ourselves much more lightly, as he says. |
| 1:10.0 | And so, this is up here is Ken Blanchard. |
| 1:13.0 | And I think we just got a laugh and let our child out. |
| 1:18.0 | We had Tom Crumb working with us recently. |
| 1:20.0 | Tom is a good friend and expert in a keto. |
| 1:22.0 | He has a marvelous book called The Magic of Conflict. |
| 1:26.0 | He said, when he works with kindergarten kids, |
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