Do you wake up each day with some excitement and intensity about doing what you do? Is the work you do a source of fulfillment? Or are you the type of person who dreads Monday and passes the time each day waiting for Friday?

We are passionate people. Passionate about something. Most of the time it has something to do with what interest us, what we view as important.

Bored people are people without passion. People with no passion generally haven't found their purpose or have lost their sense of purpose. And sometimes the passion people have as individuals and the company they work for are not the same. When this happens you have disengaged employees.

If what you do 5 days a week doesn't bring a sense of fulfillment, excitement, or satisfaction, check your passion barometer.

Engaged employees are likely individuals who believe what they are doing is making a difference. They believe what they do and what their company stands for are closely aligned in purpose.

Questions to consider about yourself and your company:

1. What difference are you making as an individual or in the products/services you offer in the lives of others?
2. What would those closest to you or the customers/clients lose if you ceased to exist?
3. If someone asked you your purpose as an individual and then your company's purpose,  how closely would they be aligned?

Be about the business of living a life or building a company whose purpose is making a difference in the lives of others. 

Otherwise either find another company who is more closely aligned in purpose, be bored, or just go back to bed.

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"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A quick 1 minute video of the difference between going to work on Monday and going home on Friday. Enjoy!

Friday vs. Monday