About a month ago I applied to review the new book out from Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, and was selected as one of many to help promote this book, which officially launches June 7th. I’m a fan of Zappos, so this was a great, easy task for me. Delivering Happiness is a book about Tony’s life – how he got started, his early mission to figure out how to make money, his desire to be part of something bigger than himself. It’s a great read for business and life.
One of the first things that really got me jazzed about this book was the idea of a Culture Book. A Culture Book is a mini book about the culture of your company… after that, you can make whatever else is inside it all unique to your company. I asked each person at Silver Square to submit, individually, what they thought the culture was here. I asked them not to talk about this assignment as I wanted it to come from them specifically. I’m also going to add photos of our get togethers, of our upcoming office move, maybe of some pitches we do, who knows what all we’ll add to this by the time the year is done. I like that it will document, year after year, what we do and how or if our culture shifts. I’m shooting for constant improvement.
So check out the Zappos Culture Book and keep your eyes peeled for a contest we’re launching next week to win your very own copy of Delivering Happiness.
You’re really going to have to crank up your volume to hear this. I was coming off a bad bug when we shot this video. My throat is raw from coughing. So that’s why my voice is so quiet and my energy is a little flat.
But the actual vision board I feel good about. I was so engaged going through the images on my board that I wasn’t really paying attention to how long I was talking. (My explanation of my vision board is longer than Raquel’s and Angela’s combined.) Recurring themes were meditation and developing an abundance mentality about time and money. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go practice my mantra about diving into a pool of gold coins for a few hours.
I really enjoyed this project and it was great for us to do together as a team. Even though we spend a lot of time together at the office, there were new things we learned about each other through this process. I surprised Clay and Raquel with my passion for running and am excited to get back at that this year. I am in dire need of a new wardrobe which is at the top of my list this year while decorating, cooking and zip-lining follow as a close second. The most exciting news to share this year is that my husband and I are in the process of adopting from Ethiopia. What a journey and a blessing!!
I hope you enjoy our videos and I encourage each of you to create your own vision board and do these together with your team at the office.
First in this three-part series is my completed vision board. You’ll see Angela’s and Clay’s next so they can each share what made it on to their boards.
I already shared a little bit about what was on my board in my earlier post, but a few things made it on there that are new: polar bear for more trips to the zoo, some organic wine for me to place in this empty mini wine cellar at my house, a trip to Napa because every wine lover should go there to unwine and take in that amazing bit of country, some very hip shoes for that wardrobe I’ll be working on and some green cleaning products so I don’t feel like I’m placing chemicals directly on my children each time I clean where they eat and play.
This Intimate Invasion was hillarious, maybe too funny. We kept laughing and laughing… Join us to meet Brian Kavicky from Maddox Industrial Contractors on this fourth installment of the Invasion. Brian swears he saw the REAL Santa Claus and he is totally serious. Enjoy and please leave a comment…. have you see Santa?
I’m mixing it up today and giving you a little view in to my vision board, which is an exercise I learned a long time ago but a few years ago picked back up due to my reading of The Success Principles (interested or committed is one of my faves too). What a vision board is to me is a place to put all of your goals down in a visual statement. In this video, I share the items I’ll be putting on my board and why I have selected them. I’m going to place this board somewhere I’ll look often, as in daily, so maybe the inside of my refrigerator.
I hope you enjoy my first video blog… I think I could increase my energy level a bit. ha I will get better at this. I promise…. or if it’s really bad, you can tell me to stop doing them in our comments section.
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