Today's post comes from the book The Carpenter by Jon Gordon. Enjoy!
We often make life more
complicated than it needs to be. Simple is powerful. The closer we get
to truth, the simpler and more powerful the principles and lessons
become. There’s nothing more powerful than Love, Serve and Care. In a
world filled with complicated and expensive success programs these are
the 3 greatest success strategies of all.
LOVE
It
all starts with love. Steve Jobs said it best, “The only way to do
great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep
looking. Don't settle.”
When you
love what you do you will embrace all the challenges, adversity and
rejection to keep doing what you love. If you don’t love it you won’t
persevere through all the obstacles to become great at it. The key then
is to do what you love and love what you do. If, in your current job,
you aren’t doing what you love then you can find things to love about
what you do.
Love is also the
greatest leadership and team building principle, customer service
strategy and sales technique on the planet. Regardless of title or
profession to be human is to love and want to be loved.
Love
is what separates good and great. Good teachers know their lesson
plans. Great teachers also know and love their students. Good coaches
know X and O’s. Great coaches also know and love their players. Good
sales people know how to sell. Great sales people also love their
clients. Good leaders know their vision and purpose. Great leaders also
know and love their people.
It’s simple. Greatness is built with love.
SERVE
Because
you love, you serve. Serving is love in action. Service takes many
forms. You can wash feet, march for civil rights, serve sandwiches, help
the needy, feed the poor, build schools and wells in Africa, assist the
elderly, serve your customers, patients, and students, and coach others
to greatness. The ways are endless but all acts of service put the
needs of others before your own.
Great
leaders serve the people they lead. Great companies serve their
clients. Great hospitals serve their patients interests before their
own. Great schools know they exist to serve the growth and development
of their students. Great coaches serve their players. Great leaders
don’t succeed because they’re great. They succeed because they bring out
the greatness in others.
You
don’t have to be great to serve but you have to serve to be great. The
ironic part of serving is that when you serve and help people improve
and grow, you improve and grow. When you lose your ego in the service of
others you find the greatness within you.
CARE
When
you love and serve you find ways to show that you care. You make people
feel important and let them know that they matter. You focus on all the
details because everyone and everything matters.
When
you care you stand out in a world where so many don’t seem to care. You
do more, give more, become more, and create more. People sense your
care and they flock to you and your work. The world takes notice and you
inspire people around you to care.
When
you care you become a craftsman/craftswoman instead of a carpenter. A
carpenter builds things but a craftsman/craftswoman puts their heart,
soul, spirit and passion into their craft. Instead of creating something
ordinary a craftsman/craftswoman creates and builds something great.
LOVE. SERVE. CARE
Many
people say to focus on growing your business. But I say to focus on
loving, serving and caring and your business will grow exponentially.
Focus on loving, serving and caring one person at a time and people will
be drawn to your business, service, school, hospital, etc. When you
love, serve and care you not only change your heart and mind, you change
the hearts and minds of the people around you.
Hope you found this as inspiring as I did! Feel free to share it with your team. If I can help you with anything in your business, please feel free to reach me directly at 612-562-8219.
Believing in you~
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