Reading Rainbow

Driving home today from one of my ‘downtown clients’, I saw a rainbow in the sky.

Most folks spend so much time searching for pots of gold (read: strategic initiatives, financial results, new products, higher compensation, more customers, nicer cars) that we forget to enjoy rainbows.

They’re quite beautiful, of course… and made famous one ROY G BIV. (I learned that acronym in college and still remember those colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.)

Rainbows are here one moment. Gone the next.

Increased earnings, bigger houses and acquiring a competitor… those last a lot longer.

They are important.

Rainbows are beautiful.

Life is better with both.

Seen a rainbow in the sky lately… or were you too busy to notice?

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Words of Wisdom

More on the Top 10 things I learned in 2009:

#8

Spin The Wheel – It’s been nearly three decades since Pat Sajak began hosting Wheel of Fortune. A big sports fan, I heard him interviewed on the Dan Patrick Show during the baseball playoffs. When the subject turned to compensation and Patrick cracked about making big bucks for working just two days a week alongside Vanna White, Sajak delivered a great line: “I get paid the money I do to act like the 6,000th show is the sixth.” Remember that whenever you feel yourself falling into a rut or becoming complacent.

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