Welcome to the online home of me, some guy given the name John Cleveland Payne. In the grand scheme of life, I am just another guy with another blog. But to myself, and hopefully to all of you who actually read this, I am something a little more special. From a young age, I fell in love of the idea of ‘the message’ and medium in which you try to transmit.
Basically, everyone has a message to give to the world. Some are basic, some complex, some have the power to up lift and some are just out there to bring as many people down as possible. But everyone has a message, and most people have problems identifying their message. And the ones who get that far can seem to figure out how to get the world to listen.
Well, I have a message, and this is where I will get a chance to share it. Hopefully, you’ll get plenty of things to keep you motivated or inspired, provide knowledge and comfort, and just have a little fun. Apologies for the state of flux and state of seemingly confusing messages that you’ll get here for a while, as I am doing a lot of personal soul searching, and scrubbing of old ideas to take the best of the past to build a new beginning.
In 2007, I changed the name of blog from “The Mis-Adventures Of The Jazzy Cool One” to “Life In Fast Forward.” I began to tear down old blogs and newsletters and try to find places for them here. My goal is to take the focus off of me the person, and show the world the life I live and share with every human on the planet. I aspire to life at a very high standard, and instead of dealing with people who rather slow us down, I want to find ways to help people pick up there own pace. As you get to see an insight to the further adventures I hope to lead, hopefully you’ll enjoy the ride, and want to come along.
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Job Motivations Must Be More Than A Paycheck
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Even with the news of more and more layoffs, you CAN NOT lesson your professional goals.
If you are showing up for work with the sole purpose of trying not to get fired, you are selling yourself and your company short.
I work for a company that isn’t doing so well at the moment, but our mission is pretty clear, at least locally. Come to work today, learn a little more, innovate a little bit, keep kicking the competition’s ass, and chances are we’ll get to do the same thing tomorrow.
It IS NOT show up, lay low, and take home a check at the end of the week.
My personal goals are insanely high. That in itself is a personal problem with failure at times to reach expectations...
…but if my only expectation was to show up, lay low, and take home a check at the end of the week, what kind of existence is that? It’s not worth my time, and probably not worth the money my company or personal clients pay me. And they currently aren’t paying that much
I have recently finished the book Fire Your Boss by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine, where the authors pretty much smack you in the face with the notion that your job is your job because they pay you, and you have every right to leave a job if someone offers to pay you more. But what’s going to motivate anyone to pay you more…or let you stay and keep your current paycheck. Marginal effort or massive effort?
Starting today, you can visit http://www.harpercollins.com/ and will be able to see the entire contents of current books, with a new books being released every month.
I've been working on some longer post on various topics, along with fixing up some old sites for the big consolidation, but I wanted to get out a quick list of books that I think are great for anyone who tends to study people and behavior. These books can be used plan new approaches to relationships in business, or even personal, if you are up to a little innocent mental trickery:
Whether you are representing yourself or your company, every time you step out into public, you are representing something that should be highly important to you. You might not be getting a commission from the ‘sale,’ but do not discount the impact your image in person, and these day online, will have.
And because everyone is in sales, you can always use a little refresher to keep your sales skills up. Here are some books that I got off a suggestion list (I think they came from Mark Cuban) that I found that helped me understand how to become an more effective salesman in all aspects of my life:
As one who prides himself on not blindly falling into the rush of hype, this afternoon I bought a copy of The 4-Hour Work Week(actually, I bought a copy of The 4-Hour Work Week Audio Book) after readingseveralblogpostings on the book in the past week or so. About an hour into the 8-hour book I am impressed with the material and glad I took the suggestions from my online brain trust of bloggers...but I am a little worried about succumbing to the rush of jumping on the next great thing.
I think it might be a personal worry not really having a group or set of similar 'living-breathing' people to bounce ideas with, and have substituted online communities and blogs in its stead. I miss having people to talk about many of the new ideas and concepts coming out, as my level of 'perfectionism' 'professionalism' isn't matching with my current profession as well as I would hope. And part of that comes from working way to much and not getting enough out of it, hence, I bought the book.
