I don’t separate work and play – it’s all living, says Richard Branson.
Why don’t most of us understand this fluidity of our lives which gives us fulfillment?Why do we chase professional success and fame leaving behind our partnerial, parental and even personal journeys?
We sprint with a professional cape on, while the other Ps – Partner, Parent, and Person in us wait for tomorrow that never comes.
Wait. Look back. Pick up all the Ps and change your race.
Go into a marathon with all the Ps – Professional, Partner, Parent, and Person within you.
This is a serious advice I am giving myself these days.
Do you agree?
Having ‘skin in the game’ means ‘investing your own money in the company that you are promoting’. In simple words, having ‘skin in the game’ means ‘owning the risk in the game’.
Do not own a part of your life.
Own the whole.
Invest yourself in all the four Ps – Person, Professional, Partner and Parent in you.
Politicians announcing wars have no skin in the game unless their children go to the war while the army men have their skin in the game.
Let all the Ps have skin in the game.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb says that the artisans whose survival depends on their reputation have skin in their game.
If being a responsible partner, parent, & person becomes a sign of good reputation, only then these roles will have ‘skin in the game’.
Own all your realms. Take risks, be volatile and vulnerable but value yourself as a partner and parent, as much as you value yourself as a person and a professional.
Do you agree?
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