Happiness

I've been tagged by Lewis to share a view of happiness and to do so by leading from the heart.  He offers a number of suggestions and I'm looking forward to reading his new book, Lead With Your Heart.

So here goes.

Many years back, I joined forced with some wonderful people to create a company that cared about more than just the bottom line.  An organization that worked with others to create a better world.  Whether we succeeded at that or not, we managed to build up some of the most amazing and wonderful people (clients and staff) that I have ever worked with.

In going back through all my photos, I had to laugh.  I have very few photos of our jobs, offices or the like.  What I have a lot of are cottage photos.  Every year we would shut down the company and rent a cottage up north.  And we would spend most of out time just chilling.  No breakouts or offsites.  And this really captures what it was to be "at spinglobe."

I can't come up with some easy equation, quote or philosophical outlook that defines happiness. But I can share some of what we managed to build.  And I am deeply and emotionally proud and grateful for the experience this team created in my life.

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Music suggestion thanks to Gavin.

Music: The Fire, by Loveshadow and calendargirl