When we do anything in the world, there can be a tendency to think of it as purely an action… but this is wholly inaccurate.

Being is absolutely inexorable from doing. A great way of illustrating this is a question my mentor Dr. Joseph Riggio asked me last October- “which side of a quarter is more the quarter- George Washington or the Eagle?” My brain kind of melted for a moment and I answered, “Neither, of course- you can’t have a quarter without all of it.”

The reality is that there is no possibility of doing anything without asking "who we are being in order to produce the outcomes we're producing?" This also means that, if looking at it from the other point of view... "in light if the results I am producing, what has to be true about who I'm being?"

“Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” –Morpheus

I have a long time friend named Linda who is very animated and expressive. A mutual friend proclaimed one day that  “Linda is a verb”.  Amusing as that statement was (and still is, frankly), I have over the years, realized how true it is… not just about her but about everyone and everything.

I have had many conversations with business owners and leaders around the core element that keeps things alive and vibrant for them, inside and outside of the workplace.  For some of them, it is completely obvious what is necessary for hobbies or their relationships with their significant others to continually be fresh, interesting and engaging. The quality of being fascinated- inexplicably drawn to being with someone and / or doing something is essential.  I also notice some of them somehow compartmentalize this – in other words, what must be true for what they consider their “personal” lives to work somehow don’t apply to their “business” or “work” lives.