Franklin Taggart's Unconventional Life Blog

  Happy Valentine's Day! Thoughts today about love and work. Getting away from the idea of loving what you do and focusing instead on loving THROUGH what you do. It's interesting when I change the focus of work from getting something out of it to delivering a better quality of life to people through it, it becomes much more satisfying and I get all I want from it. You? Those days when I'm burned out, it seems that those are the days when I'm looking to be fulfilled rather than being generous and looking for ways to give. One of the best mysteries is how in giving we receive. Is your work a transfer of love into your close circles, your community, and your world? What would it take to make it so? If you'd ever like to have a conversation with me, the best way to set it up is to use the contact form here: https://www.franklintaggart.com/p/about.html #lovethroughwork #higherpurpose #meaningfulwork

We've talked about what you want to be known for and what specialties of yours you want people to remember. In this coffee break, we talk about another important aspect of niching and branding - core values.  Core values, like passion, can be easily misunderstood. I think core values are the qualities and activities that enliven and animate us. They energize and attract. If we act out of alignment with them, we end up drained and burned out.  In identifying these qualities and centering our work on them, we find that our work becomes an expression of deeper gifts and more meaning. An easy way to start to clarify core values is the activity of telling our personal stories. What are the turning points, the deep aha moments, the teachers, and the experiences that shape who we are? These stories reveal the things and people and places and activities that really matter.  #corevalues #storytelling #meaningfulwork