Tonight I have a question for you — what is it that you do? I am not talking about your day job, though that is part of it. I want to know what the first thing you think about when you get up in the morning. Is it providing for your family? Finishing the last chapter of your book? Getting your startup off the ground?

What is it?

If someone were writing a book on your life with you as the main character, would would be your motivation? How would you want to be portrayed? What about you would excite the readers?

I don’t want a dissertation. It is a lot easier to write a complex treatise on what makes us tick than to boil it down to its core values. I like to think that mine goes something like this, “I write about, build and promote good ideas.” If my entire life was spent learning to do this better and earn a decent living at it, I’d be deliriously happy.

So tell me, what do you do?

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