Are you missing out on life, on your dreams and on your purpose by staying in your comfort zone?
I recently wrote a post titled Banging Pans and Throwing Fish in Corporate America to share an fun way to engage people, meet and exceed goals and inspire organizational change.
Today someone posted this question in response to that post,
“I work in a food production environment. Any Ideas on how to apply this on a production floor? Remember. “Safety is the number one priority!”
Yesterday I gave a presentation and shared a painful story from our lives and some of the lessons we learned, hoping to make a difference for even one person.
Two specific lessons I shared were:
Tonight I realized that September 11th is just around the corner. That date, always makes me think of where we were on the day our nation will never forget… My husband was at work in Houston. I was on a business trip in Phoenix. I turned on the television in my hotel room as the plane hit the second tower and wondered if I had tuned into a movie instead of the news. When the Pentagon was hit, I realized everything was real and wondered if this was the start of WW III.
As the recession gained momentum, I heard an analogy from a manager about how a tube of toothpaste can seem empty but if you keep squeezing there is a little more in there. The point that was being made, was that if you keep squeezing people, you will get more out of them and that you should just keep squeezing. That image still makes my stomach churn.
[Tweet “People are not toothpaste tubes.”]
[Tweet “Squishing and tossing people won’t grow your company! “]
