How would you define it?
For me it’s been ho‘ohana.
The quickie Hawaiian lesson:
Hana is the word for work as a noun.
Put the ho‘o in front of it, the noun becomes the verb, as in to work.
Value that ho‘o, and it means to make something happen!
Work consumes about a third of your life. (Think: 24 hrs = 8 asleep, 8 working, 8 left.)
This sentence jumped out at me in an article called “Workplace Democracy ”“ The emergence of a community of independent workers” (link thanks to Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily):
Work in its basic form can be viewed as something someone does that brings them dignity while making a contribution to the world in which they live.
—Mark Dowds, co-founder of www.creationstep.com
I like that.
Work comes in so many people-defining shapes and forms. [Flickr photo credit.]
Are you up for the one-sentence challenge? How would you define work?
Work puts food on the table and a roof over my family’s head.
Yeah, But I don’t have my own business
Today you don’t. Tomorrow you might.And today, it’s not just about business, or about your job. It’s about you and what you are all about. April sent me an email today about a new gig she has, and she wrote,