Many of you know I currently manage the daytime operation of a friend’s quick service restaurant. We have a standing biweekly meeting we use to review business results and provide development opportunities for our leaders. The following is an email recap I sent to the team this week:
“Hi guys,
Thank you for working so hard to be good stewards of the responsibilities you’ve been given. I appreciate the personal investment each of you has made to help us achieve our team goals. This year we have experienced a great deal of success! Unfortunately, we are rapidly approaching the limit of our current abilities. The good news is that we as individuals have enormous potential for continued growth. Our future success as a team is dependent on each of us realizing some of our untapped potential. This is why we’ve been investing time in personal development. The following is a recap of our discussion Wednesday.
What story are you telling with your life?
In the end our lives are stories. So what makes for an interesting story? A story is a character, or group of characters, who wants something and is willing to overcome conflict to get it .
Who are you?
The lead character in a story must be good. They cannot consider themselves better than others. What about you? Are you humble? Do you consider others more important than yourself?
What do you want?
The character’s ambition must be good. It must benefit others. This is what makes your story interesting to the rest of us. Want something really good, (like saving the lives of others) and we might pitch in to help make sure your story has a happy ending. No one cares if you get a house on the lake. Sure, we’re happy for you but none of us would waste two hours of our life watching a movie about it.
It’s gonna be hard!
Joy costs pain. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Santa won’t show up with your happy ending.
We’ll be talking about this more in the coming days and weeks. If you’d like to learn more about using the principles of story as a framework for your life, check out Donald Miller’s book A Million Miles In A Thousand Years [Yes, I included an affiliate link in the email. Hey, I've got four kids to feed]. I can’t wait to learn more about the stories you’re telling with your lives!
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What story are you telling with your life?
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