Rule 73. Remember the Object of the Exercise

My fellow writer Carmel McConnell says in Get Ahead; Give a Damn: “Happy, fulfilled, stretched but supported people generally achieve the most at work and get the most from life. They drain a lot of swamps—and have a pretty good time doing it (strange though it may seem swamp drainage is a Very Enjoyable Occupation). However, many of us face a few alligators...those subversive obstacles that get in the way of a productive, high achieving but low-stress kind of life. Some of them we make ourselves, some of them are placed there by other people. Some of them just are.”

And the object of the exercise, my friend, is what? We all have a different agenda. You may say, “To make profits for the shareholders” (Rule 52), but you’re just trying to curry favor by giving an answer you think I want. I don’t.