S2E30 How to Love Your Work Part 2
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Many people view work as a punishment, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In part 2 of this episode, Brian shares how work can be a pleasure, not a chore. Topics discussed include: How to find meaning in your work, why it’s so important to serve others and why you have to keep challenging yourself if you want to grow and develop.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why work is work.
· Why some people are happy at work.
· Steps to take to love your work.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E29, How to Love Your Work Part 1
Episode 303, From Paycheck to Purpose – an Interview with Ken Coleman
https://www.thebrianbuffinishow.com/from-paycheck-to-purpose-an-interview-with-ken-coleman-303/
Episode 289, The Blessing of Work
https://www.thebrianbuffinishow.com/the-blessing-of-work-289/
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“If you want to find meaning, it's always going to have some form of service.” – Brian Buffini
“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.” – Og Mandino
“You’ve got to grow where you're planted.” – Brian Buffini
“When you never want to work a day in your life, you make it about them, not you.” – Brian Buffini
“In blessing other people and serving other people, it changes your own state.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast, where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think, |
| 0:07.6 | feel and do better. Here's your host, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome back to It's a Good Life. We're talking this week about our work life. On Tuesday |
| 0:18.1 | we covered why work is work. So today let's cover why some people are happy in their work |
| 0:24.3 | and how you can be too. Let's talk about why some people are happy at work. Well, here's |
| 0:29.6 | the reasons. First, they find meaning within the work. They find meaning in it. I want to tell you |
| 0:34.8 | a personal story. My son Alex is a different cat. He's been a deep thinker his whole life. I |
| 0:42.1 | remember I've think I've told this story on the podcast before when he was about 14 or 15, he's on |
| 0:46.7 | the high school football team and he was good athlete, but he's never the fastest guy on the |
| 0:51.2 | team. He's a big guy. And so I'm watching the end of practices and they're doing sprints and |
| 0:55.8 | they do 10 sprints in a row and he is killing himself to win these sprints and he wins all 10. |
| 1:00.9 | And I'm looking at me, gets in the car, I'm driving him home, he's whacked. And I said to him, |
| 1:06.0 | man, you know, you take care of yourself out there. But what was all that about? He goes, well, |
| 1:11.4 | I want to be a good example to my kids. And I'm like, is there something you need to tell me? You |
| 1:15.6 | got a couple of kids stashed away here at 15. What's going on? But he's this global big picture |
| 1:20.5 | thinker. Like we talk about the profile, the real strength profile. He's a global person, big |
| 1:24.7 | picture thinker. So this kid has actually been, I would say almost afflicted with the need to |
| 1:30.8 | have purpose in his life since he was a young boy. It's just been keen to him. And he's tried all |
| 1:36.0 | kinds of different things. And he hears his dad has a big job and his mom was an Olympian and his |
| 1:39.9 | brothers, the superstar guy and his sisters on a Olympic team and he's in this family of achievers. |
| 1:44.8 | And so he's constantly comparing himself to all the different members of the family and whatever |
| 1:47.8 | else. And right now he's coaching and he was asked by his alma mater in high school to coach. And he |
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