Men of Fuel,
At 3:03 pm last Friday I landed at Dulles airport after five days in Las Vegas, where my company had held their annual Global Sales Kick-Off (GSKO). To be honest, unless you are about to win the World Series of Poker, or are a performer for Cirque du Soleil there is no reason to be in Vegas for five days. That place is a grind. Believe me this is no moral stance against Vegas, this has more to do with health and well-being.
Now I must admit that I might have allowed the excitement of Vegas to cause me to act differently than I would if I was at home. From eating, to sleeping, to working out, to drinking, to money management, I acted differently (Can you call Poker money management?). How sad that I would allow a place determine how I acted, that a location could have so much bearing on who I was.
However the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this wasn’t the first time this had happened in my life. As a matter of fact I think that for the majority of my life, I have allowed a location, or situation determine how I acted, or worse dictate who I was. It might have been a job, a relationship, a title, a hobby a time of my life, or even a city, but the more I thought about this the more I realized that all too often, where I was determined who I was.
Am I alone? Or can each of you point to a time in your lives (Maybe even now) where you allowed a location (Job, Relationship, etc.) to determine how you acted, or worse dictate who you were? Set your alarms and come on out tomorrow morning (6:30am) as we begin our new series “Identity†with week one†“Where are you?â€
See you guys in the am.
D.R.
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