I don't just do

I'm emotional, I just am. My kids are the greatest, they just are. Music is better when delivered live or interpreted through dance, it just is. I love my job, I DON'T just do. I don't just love my job, I have had to work really hard to find my OPUS. For as long as I've been working, I've never loved my job more AND never worked harder, funny huh? Playing professional soccer was the closest thing to it but even that wasn't as great because now I've truly authored my work.

A couple of months ago I was presented with the opportunity to lead development of a test pilot program bringing digital technologies into a New Balance store. As I sat down and began dreaming, I remembered how frustrating it has been with the brick and click program to continue answering the same questions of "what is this about... what are we doing... why are we doing this" and since this was on the heels of delivering our company OPUS, I decided to write one for this project. The ACT of doing this brought all of my emotional passions into a living document to guide the way. It wasn't, hasn't and isn't going to be easy, but it has been clear on what this is all about.

Well today was the first time we showed it to anyone outside of the core team working on it and to hear it presented, see the dream coming to life and to get the response from others believing in it too, has brought a sense of true purpose I could have only dreamed of. The true purpose is that I, David John Deck, emotional father to the world's three greatest kids and lover of live music and dance, has a big dream. I authored and shared that dream, I grew the dream with the help of others and am living that dream. This didn't "just happen", it isn't "just" anything... it's my purpose.

The reason I'm writing this tonight is to remind myself of a couple of things. Loving your job doesn't just happen, if it does you're luckier than me. Loving your job takes real, hard work AND great leadership. In my life... Joe believes it's important to invest in my development via BTL, Chet models the way to live your big dream, and Rob D. heard me, the organ player in the weeds, and turned him up.

God help me REALLY get this, God REALLY help me give this.