How To Be Even More Amazing In 2012

Friday night is pizza night at Casa de Henson. I always enjoy swinging by the drive through at my local Donatos for two reasons: 1. I love the smell of pizza in my car, and 2. I love seeing how prepared they are for the inevitable Friday night rush. They have pizza boxes literally stacked floor to ceiling. 

In case you didn't know, pizza boxes are shipped and stored flat. The employees then have to pop them into the shape of a box. I've seen stores do this as the pizzas are made, and that's ok...if things are slow. But Friday night? Fuggeddaboutit. Way too crazy busy at most pizza joints. 

My local Donatos gets it. They understand that it's very wise to use their downtime earlier in the day or earlier in the week to get those boxes ready. Somebody somewhere in the organization said, "Hey, wouldn't it be easier to rock those pizzas out if we didn't have to stop and pop a box together every time?"

2012 is coming. It's going to be crazier and busier at work next year. You know it is. It ALWAYS is. When you're in the middle of the craziness, it's hard to stop and say "Hmmm, I wonder how I could get better at what I do." Instead, you usually think "Holy crap, why wasn't I more prepared?!"

I have a belief that everybody wants an even more amazing place to work next year. You want work to be fun, challenging, exciting, and rewarding. To achieve that, I think you also know that you'll have to be even more amazing, too.

You want to be more amazing, you just don't know how. And when you're "in the weeds" (i.e., slammin' busy & extra challenged), that's when you really need to be more amazing, but you have no time, energy, power, or control during those times to stop and work on yourself.

One of my collaboration partners is Jason Barger, author of Step Back From The Baggage Claim. Jason & I got to talking about the very dilemma I mentioned above. We had so many great ideas during that conversation that we quickly decided we had to figure out a way to share them with you.

So, we've put together a FREE 3-part series of short videos full of ideas and tips for how to prepare to be more amazing at work in 2012. Each video is only 5-10 minutes long. We encourage you to watch them all, share them, comment on them, and give yourself some time to think about the ideas and how you can apply them headed into the new year.

Click on the video to get started. If you can't see the video, here's the link: http://www.sparkspace.com/video1.htm

Consider these videos and the ideas they contain as an early Christmas present...to yourself.

See you next week.