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Plain and simple, if the title of this didn’t make you immediately scoff or go wtf, then you should be arriving at the precipice of a perfect problem right about now.

Even if you don’t see it knocking, it’s there.

This may also be better in context, but that’s a long section as it is.Meaning Motivates

I intently placed this section after talking about problems because it is not without problems do we truly understand the value of what we have. The first thing you ever bought with a paycheck you probably (hopefully) cared just a little bit more about having earned that purchase yourself than any of the things you claimed to value that your parents bought you.

Oftentimes at work I facilitate process improvement efforts called kaizens, which stand for continuous improvement. Kaizen is a term that was invented by Toyota and felt like a godsend to me when I first encountered and understood it because it taught the significance of thinking through specific contexts to arrive at creative solutions to complex business problems. They didn’t all pan out as I would have hoped, while others have been instrumental in changing the way we did things, even if for a minute. Self-improvement is a lot like a kaizen, because it’s continuous, whether you think it is or not, and can flop or fly as a result of the right kinds of self-improvement. If you’re continuously improving your ability to play a game, you’re probably not improving in the realms of life that would yield different results to you, but whether or not you view that as a flop is up to the person living it. Similarly, improving your ability to be a more confident public speaker, athletic person, project manager, florist, cook, artist, burner, yogi, you yield to yourself different forms of currency for which you ascribe your own value. The things we mentally invest our time in are like mental stocks we keep in our head and evaluate that constant noise across all of our investments frantically looking for a trend to bail out on or sink more of our time into. If a stock market analyst thinks that a stock is valuable, they will recommend buying it. Similarly, if you think doing something will generate value for your in your life, then you will find the motivation to do it. However, we are all obsessed with reading the price tags of these stocks and giving no fucks about their historical trends, future expectations for performance, or horror stories from those who sunk everything they had into life’s shiniest stock options. There is a reason they say to diversify your investments and sometimes the basic things in life are not just riskless, they are everything you have when you lose all value, all meaning, from the experiences you invested your time into when times change and priorities are different.

Intrinsic vs Extrinsic

The things I write about in this about as important I am speaking within the Intrinsic currency that comes with life you stand to gain while acknowledging the obvious underscoring drivers behind many people today

Extrinsic is

Customer vs Value

Go into kaizen mode

This should get into customer thinking so that by the end you start identifying the customer

Value of Meaning

Value of Agency

Value of Purpose.