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What “Work” Really Means and The Lie We Tell Ourselves
Most people believe that work is a destination.
That work is someplace you go, to sit your butt in a chair for hours a day, during certain days of the week.
For many years, I believed this for myself and my team.
I believed that I had to drive to work to get work done. So I would get in early and leave late. But this was a cultural lie I was telling myself. I grew up watching people go to work, so I naturally thought that I must “go to work” to achieve some level of success.
My programming led me to believe that I had to log many hours at a place to become successful, as if time at “work” was what compounded success.
I was terribly wrong.
Work is something you do, not somewhere you go.
Work is about achieving results.
Work is about putting a relentless focus on what matters the most and getting it done. Where you do work doesn’t matter. It can happen at 4 am on a Tuesday or 3 pm on a Saturday. Unfortunately, leaders, managers, and your own self-accountability programming has led you to believe that work must be done at a place.
But work isn’t a destination; it’s an action.
