Whistling While You Work: 10 Ways to Getting Paid for Doing What You Love

1. Whistling While You Work:10 Ways to Getting Paid for Doing What You Love Tim Salaver VP, Operations and General Manager tim@alphavilledesign.com

2. Objective • Change your thinking • Change your attitude • Change your environment • Change your emotional fortitude • Change your job • Change your career • Change your life

3. Find Your Eeky Guy Systems Administrator

4. Find Your Ikigai • The things that make life most worth living • Work-Life balance exists with the scales tipped toward LIFE • What gets you up in the morning? • What is your mission in life? • What do you dream about?

5. Write Your Answers to the Following Questions • What do I want to be when I grow up? • What was I born to do? • What does success mean to me?

6. Perseverance and Motivation • Identify the activities that you persist in • Identify what motivates you • Successful people are not quitters; they just change priorities “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has”                        ~ Margaret Mead, Cultural Anthropologist “To be motivated is not driven by reducing tension or avoiding frustration, but that people look for a positive view.” ~ Abraham Maslow, Psychologist “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ~Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor

7. Trust and Loyalty • Do you work with people you trust • Do you have loyalty to: • Your job • Your career • Your co-workers • Your boss • Who is loyal to you?

8. Excellence and Experience • M = ce2 (Motivation = competency times excellence and experience) • Attitude of greatness toward superior achievement • Quality of work is above standard • Mediocre does not exist • Peter Principle – In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence "I'm blessed. I mean, come on, I found something I absolutely love. I'm one of the best, and I work for myself. It ain't going to get no better than that" ~ Christopher Gardner, Investment Banker

9. Group Activity 1 (3 minutes) In teams consisting of 4 to 5 people, discuss the ramifications of having resources that don’t like their jobs.

10. Support and Pride • What activity do you do that others are proud of? • Boasting and shouting from the mountain tops • Praise and exultation • Find Your Village • Do you want to be the leader of mediocrity or the member of a winning team? “How can I soar with Eagles… when I’m wading with the Ducks." ~ Anonymous

11. Passionate and Emotional • What activities cause great and strong emotion • Collector and Fan • Obsession and Addiction • What is Passion? Love what you do like you love somebody. ~Anonymous

12. Kaukahi or In the Zone • Singleness of Purpose • Focus • NO distractions • Eyes on the Prize What Would You Do If You Could Not Fail? ~Anonymous

13. IN THE ZONE You Don’t Always Know That You’re Here It Just Happens

14. When You’re IN THE ZONE • Transformation is physical, mental, and emotional • You’re not aware of distractions or interruptions • Reflex and Response is immediate • Senses are heightened

15. Out of the Zone • What happens when you’re not IN THE ZONE?

16. IN THE ZONE Results • Hyper-productivity • not hyperactivity • High Rate of Success • Seemingly minimal effort • Movement is not wasted • Success

17. Group Activity 2 (3 minutes) Identify times you or the people around you have been IN THE ZONE. Name athletes IN THE ZONE. What activities or tasks cause being IN THE ZONE.

18. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy • What you do makes other people happy • You create a positive environment • Oh, BTW, you enjoy what you do without a lot of effort • Negative environment can be a black hole "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do." ~Jerry Garcia, Former Leader of the Grateful Dead

19. Fulfilling and Accomplishment • Your Work Defines You • Your Work Completes You • Builders Build • Golfers Golf • Lawyers Argue • What do others say about you? • 360 Degree Feedback • Include the C.A.V.E. People

20. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs “We move toward self-actualization where we become aware of not only our own fullest potential, but the fullest potential of human beings at large” ~Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

21. Group Activity 3 (3 minutes) Discuss the affect on your work when you have the environment needed or support to do your job.

22. Money, Schmoney • You would do it for free!! • Secondary to Activity’s Goals • Money will follow MANTRA • Dues Paying Time Period • Success defined not by how much • Negotiate from a position of Power “My hobby started to slowly turn into a good business. I decided to do what I loved instead of working long hours with very few vacations." ~Harvey Branman, professional photographer

23. 10 Steps to Getting Paid for Doing What You Love • Find Your Ikigai • Persevere and Stay Motivated • Build Trust and Loyalty • Attain Excellence and Experience • Create Your Support Team • Be Passionate and Emotional • Maintain Your Focus • Create a Positive Environment • Achieve Your Goals • Show Me the Money

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25. Tim Salaver, MBA, PMP, CSSMBBVP, Operations and General ManagerAlphaville Design, Inc.http://www.alphavilledesign.comtim@alphavilledesign.com(702) 286-7464 Mobile Have a Wonderful Life Experience!!!!