Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linchoney, where everything we talk

about is related to changing the world of work so that more organizations can be more

effective and less dysfunctional and employees can be more fulfilled and less miserable.

I'm your host, Pat Linchoney, joined by a special co-host today, Cody got called away for

a very important family thing. Everything's fine, but he had to go help his mother-in-law

with something urgent. Actually, her tire blew out, so he had to go help her. So stepping

in for Cody is Bo Johnson. We love having you here, Bo. You're his neighbor, so you're

jumping in for him. We appreciate it. And this is a topic you're going to love. You already

love. I do love this topic, yes. And Tracy, you're back, as always, thank you for being

here. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah. Thank you for having me. And Matt's on the

keyboards. Hey, Matt, thanks for doing this. How are you doing today, Matt? Matt's eating something

and he's happy. Okay, good. So what's our topic today, Bo? Today we're talking about vocation

over vacation. Yeah, what does that mean? This word vocation is what this is about. And it comes

from Latin, which and it stands for the word calling. When you have a vocation, you have a

calling. And if you're familiar with in the Christian world, a vocation is often seen as being

a priest or a nun and people say, you know, what's we have we need vocations. And that's what they

mean. And then we carry that further. We could say, well, my vocation is to be a good husband

for my wife or my or to be a parent to my kid. So we can see that's a calling too. But the thing is

all work has the potential to be a vocation. And a vocation is always about others.

And when our work is a vocation, that's when we find joy and we avoid burnout. Now this

is different than working genius. Now within the vocation that we have, we should use our working

genius. But what we're now talking about is not like what we do, like the actual activity,

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