BUT WOULD YOU DRIVE ALL NIGHT??
Apr 25, 2017
Has this ever happened to you? You drive all over two states for two days, race from your last donor meeting to the airport just in time for your 7:30 pm flight, eat no dinner, then sit on the runway for an hour, totally missing your connection. You land in an airport “just” five hours from home…after 10 pm.
And then…instead of staying at the airport and taking the luxuriously late morning flight, you rent a car, pass many hotels where people are happily sleeping, pick up your car at the “home” airport at 2:38 am, and finally pull bleary-eyed into your garage at 4 am?
We did this last Thursday! And just to be clear, I would have been quite happy to stay at the St. Louis airport and fly home mid-day.
But my very awesome colleague had a lunch-time solicitation with the dean, a presentation to her advisory board, and a brief cameo at the Dean’s Club dinner (which the Chancellor and Provost were slated to attend). She really wanted to get home.
And guess what? That donor wrote a $30,000 check at lunch.
Why am I telling you this? Because it was an amazing reminder of what it’s like to be ALL IN. It’s so great! It leads to adventures, it helps you bond with colleagues. Your job feels like the opportunity that it actually is - rather than the slog we can sometimes fall into. And the universe rewards you with beautiful checks. (Okay, not always, but surprisingly often!)
So our challenge for you today is this: find a reason to fall so in love with your cause that you are willing to drive through the night – or some other heroic feat. Remember your "why" - locate the juice that unlocks your superpowers. Because when your job feels more like a calling, when you feel blessed and lucky to be able to do it, everything is (So. Much.) better.
