The Road to Happiness in Your Work

How to be happy in business : by Bud Caddell

I saw this pic several weeks ago via someone in Twitter, probably @iMenn (owner of WordPress theme I’m using). It attracted me immediately. This diagram describes the way to balance 3 field of working; what we do well, what we want to do, and, what we can be paid to do.

Without any description in detail, this diagram can be easily understood. By the way, one of the scenerio mentioned by Bud Caddell, creator of this diagram, is a bit different from what I understood at the first place.

We’ve come across things people want us to do, that we do well (or at least better than the competition) that we really don’t want to do. This is perhaps the most fatal trap for any business I’ve worked in. These are the sirens calling you to shipwreck. You’ll hemorrhage your best people, you’ll stop loving what you do, and you’ll lose the passion that built your business in the first place. Start saying ‘No.’

Links :

• http://whatconsumesme.com/2009/what-im-writing/how-to-be-happy-in-business-venn-diagram/
• http://lifehacker.com/5280491/the-road-to-happiness-in-your-work-lies-in-the-hooray-zone
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_caddell/3592960452/