Many actors often ask a director, “what’s my motivation?”  “Getting paid” would be my response.

But oftentimes in life we need to ask ourselves the same thing – why am I doing this?   Recently there was a decision with an organization that I am a part of that took both time, effort and money from our already overextended volunteer base.  During the course of the project, they made it abundantly clear that whatever I was doing had priority and they would try to work around me.   After a few weeks of things not going as fast as I wanted, I found myself getting more and more upset about the project, so much so that I was deliberately trying to find ways that could cause probelems.

“Will setting up chairs on the floor, where they need to work, sufficiently disrupt their day?  Should I find a way  to “need” the space at the same time they need it, just because I have priority?  Then I asked myself “why” – and the short answer was simply “to be difficult.”

I realized that wasn’t a very good answer.  Even if I was upset about the project, deliberately sabotaging it was not in the best interest of the organization.

There are a lot of mean people in the world, and I would rather not be one of them.  Next time you do something out of spite, maybe you should ask yourself  -What’s my motivation?

Many actors often ask a director, “what’s my motivation?”  “Getting paid” would be my response.

But oftentimes in life we need to ask ourselves the same thing – why am I doing this?   Recently there was a decision with an organization that I am a part of that took both time, effort and money from our already overextended volunteer base.  During the course of the project, they made it abundantly clear that whatever I was doing had priority and they would try to work around me.   After a few weeks of things not going as fast as I wanted, I found myself getting more and more upset about the project, so much so that I was deliberately trying to find ways that could cause probelems.

“Will setting up chairs on the floor, where they need to work, sufficiently disrupt their day?  Should I find a way  to “need” the space at the same time they need it, just because I have priority?  Then I asked myself “why” – and the short answer was simply “to be difficult.”

I realized that wasn’t a very good answer.  Even if I was upset about the project, deliberately sabotaging it was not in the best interest of the organization.

There are a lot of mean people in the world, and I would rather not be one of them.  Next time you do something out of spite, maybe you should ask yourself  -What’s my motivation?

My friend, Rick Kent, is on day 4 of his Jeopardy run today.   Go Go Rick!

And yes, that’s the same Rick from Win Ben Stein’s Money in my gallery

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Sometimes when I try to write a blog post, the voice from The Wonder Years or even Kyle XY starts going through my mind. The problem with this, is that it sometimes makes me feel like I have to be extremely prophetic in my posts, instead of posting what is going on. Usually this results in the entire post being thrown out altogether for not being “meaningful” enough.

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